Isn't it supposed to be just a simple command? COPY 0%.BAT FOLDER? I have a batch file inside a folder which is inside another folder that is on the desktop (Desktop > Temp > activity > test.bat). In the batch file at the end I added this:
COPY %0.BAT Temp
so basically I want to copy it to copy itself to the parent folder without it running. and one more thing, how can I redirect the output of my batch file commands to a nul device?
You want to copy the batch file up 2 folders, right? How about this?
@echo off
copy %0 ..\..\temp >nul
If you want to redirect the standard output of a command to nowhere, use >nul. Use @echo off to turn off all output.
Update to explain what %0 is:
When running a batch file, values like "%0" or "%1" refer to the arguments passed into the batch file. The value %0 is the batch file itself, the value %1 is the first argument passed to the batch file, %2 is the second argument, etc.. So for example if you had a file FOO.BAT which contained:
echo 1st arg: '%0'
echo 2nd arg: '%1'
echo 3rd arg: '%2'
If you ran:
C:\foo.bat hello world
The output would be:
1st arg: 'foo.bat'
2nd arg: 'hello'
3rd arg: 'world'