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I have a batch file that is in the same directory as the file I want to xcopy . But for some reason the file is not being found. I thought that current directory was always where the batch file was located. I run batch file as administrator. This occurs on a Windows 7 64-bit desktop computer. Batch file: @ECHO OFF XCOPY /y "File1.txt" "File2.txt" PAUSE Error: File not found - File1.txt 0 File(s) copied Which directory is current working directory on starting a batch file with context menu item Run as administrator depends on User Account Control (UAC) setting for the current user. This can be

I have a server on which I have a bare repository for pushing. However, my server needs to have a working copy of the master branch. How do I get a working copy and that only from a bare repository? You can simply clone the repository to another directory on the same machine: git clone /bare/repo/dir.git The current directory will become a non-bare clone of your repo, and you'll get a checkout of the master branch automatically. Then use the usual commands like git pull to update it as needed. As a side benefit, this operation is very efficient — if you specify a local directory to git clone ,

I created a VSTO Outlook Addin that uses a library Html2Xhtml.dll (.NET) which calls another Html2xhtml.exe by executing System.Diagnostic.Process.Start(). However, it fails to call Html2xhtml.exe (i think) because the working directory even when launched from Visual Studio is the current user My Documents folder. I have no control over the code in Html2Xhtml.dll so I cannot use absolute path; but I suppose I can change the working directory of the Add-in at runtime. However, If I install this via ClickOnce or some other means where I do not know the install path the user is going to choose,

I have a project with the following structure: project_name/CMakeLists.txt project_name/src project_name/resources ... project_name-build/configuration_name/project_name.exe I want my application to be run in the root project directory project_name so it can directly access resources . Does CMake provide a method to specify this property, or will I have to manually set it in each build environment I use? I've looked around in the documentation and haven't found anything other than the possibility of setting up a post-build event to run my project from the desired directory which is less than

I'm writing some unit tests for my application in Go. The tests fail however because it cannot find the configuration files. Normally the binary looks for the configuration files in the working directory under the path conf/*.conf . I figured that browsing to the directory that has conf/ and running go test in it would solve it, but it still reports that the file system cannot find the path specified. How can I tell go test to use a certain directory as the working directory so that the tests may actually be executed? N8Theo You may be able to use the Caller to get the path to the current test

This question already has an answer here: How do I run a program with a different working directory from current, from Linux shell? 11 answers I know I can use cd command to change my working directory in bash. But if I do this command: cd SOME_PATH && run_some_command Then the working directory will be changed permanently. Is there some way to change the working directory just temporarily like this? PWD=SOME_PATH run_some_command codaddict You can run the cd and the executable in a subshell by enclosing the command line in a pair of parentheses: (cd SOME_PATH && exec_some_command) Demo: $ pwd