Batch file: get absolute path of parent directory

Question

I recently came across to a situation where need to fetch parent directory of currently being executed batch file. Searched for the solution on google and stackoverflow but could find a clean and easy solution.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you were looking for.

@echo off
for %%a in ("%~dp0\.") do echo "%%~dpnxa"
for %%a in ("%~dp0\.") do for %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do echo "%%~dpnxb"
pause