How Can I Determine the Path to the Folder Where a Script is Running?

re: How Can I Determine the Path to the Folder Where a Script is Running?

Eduardo Mozart de Oliveira — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:24:29 GMT

Thank you! Your post was very useful!

I think that VBScript is dying to PowerShell, but i really doesn't like it.

Thanks.

re: How Can I Determine the Path to the Folder Where a Script is Running?

Rob Guy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:48:31 GMT

I know, it's been hashed out a thousands times in a thousand different places but the simple string replace runs the hazard (however small the possibility) of the script's name existing elsewhere in the string of the full path and skewing the results. There's the method shown above (essentially):

wScript.Echo CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetParentFolderName(Wscript.ScriptFullName)

or, if you don't have one handy already or don't want to create an instance of the Scripting.FileSystemObject you can stick with the string parsing route with:

wScript.Echo Left(Wscript.ScriptFullName, InStrRev(Wscript.ScriptFullName, "\"))

re: How Can I Determine the Path to the Folder Where a Script is Running?

Si... — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:06:12 GMT

It's easier to use this...

WScript.echo replace( WScript.ScriptFullName, WScript.ScriptName, "" )