Command prompt quesstion

What does command symbol % mean?

For example I know that CD means Current Directory or Change Directory.

What does %CD% mean?

Don Cole

From Stackoverflow:

1. The percent sign is used in batch files to represent command line parameters: %1, %2, ...
2. Two percent signs with any characters in between them are interpreted as a variable:
   echo %myvar%
   
3. Two percent signs without anything in between (in a batch file) are treated like a single percent sign in a command (not a batch file): %%f

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What is the difference between % and %% in a cmd file? - Stack Overflow

doncole said:

What does command symbol % mean?

For example I know that CD means Current Directory or Change Directory.

What does %CD% mean?

Don Cole

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You can see what %CD% means by typing "echo %cd%" in the console. The output you get will be the current directory name. So it means the current directory.

On my Win 10 Pro system, %cd% appears to hold the last cd (change directory) target you entered.