Determine the mapped network path from cmd window

Question

I have a network drive - mapped to Z:\

Is there a simple command to know the full network path from cmd ?

I.e. if cmd shows Z:\ABC\, I had like a command to output \\networkDrive\MappedDir\ABC

net use is fine but I would like to get the full path of the current working directory (for quick copies).

Answer 1

Type

net use

Which will shows you all currently connected network drive.

OK           Z:        \\127.0.0.1\c$            Microsoft Windows Network

Answer 2

It's quite an old question but.. I was looking for the exact same answer as I was trying to create a batch that will use the UNC path to the actual location of the patch and do some things there (so only copy&paste to another location/folder and start again).

As I couldn't find an answer I found a solution myself, but it's not very beautiful and certainly not a simple command. But it's possible to implement in batch. On CMD it would be:

FOR /F "tokens=2" %i IN ('NET USE ^| FIND "%CD:~0,2%"') DO (
      SET cNetworkPath=%i)
SET cNetworkPath=%cNetworkPath%%CD:~2%
ECHO %cNetworkPath%

You can copy the four lines (better 4+empty line) and paste them into CMD to get an imidiate echo of the path to copy it.

In batch you would use it a bit differently:

FOR /F "tokens=2" %%i IN ('NET USE ^| FIND "%~d0"') DO (
      bNetworkPath=%%i)
SET bCheckPath=!bOriginalPath!%~p0

The variable %CD% stores the current path and you need only the drive letter so you only search for that with the FIND command in NET USE. With the "tokens=2" (or 3, depending on NET USE output) the %i variable stores the path to the drive letter you searched for. After that the second SET command adds the folders you browsed on the network drive with %CD:~2% (offset 2 to cut off the drive letter).

For batch you use the %~d0 or %~p0 variables. %0 stores the full path of the batch itself (e. g. Z:\temp\test.bat ; %~d0 = Z: ; %~p0 = \temp\ ; d = drive, p = path, f = full path, n = name) otherwise it's similar to the CMD command.

Answer 3

The path of the bat may be different from the working directory. So we need Mykorrhiza's first approach inside a bat. To accommodate the situation of missing status and also local disk drives, we need additional checks. The following is the working code:

SET cNetworkPath=    
FOR /F "tokens=2" %%i IN ('NET USE ^| FIND "%CD:~0,2%"') DO (
      SET cNetworkPath=%%i)
if "%cNetworkPath%" == "%CD:~0,2%" (
  FOR /F "tokens=3" %%i IN ('NET USE ^| FIND "%CD:~0,2%"') DO (
        SET cNetworkPath=%%i)
)
if "%cNetworkPath%" == "" set cNetworkPath=%CD:~0,2%
SET cNetworkPath=%cNetworkPath%%CD:~2%
ECHO %cNetworkPath%

The above code works in most cases, but there are cases where the net use and the find do not work, the following is the finally tested work method:

SET cNetworkPath=
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('wmic path win32_mappedlogicaldisk get deviceid^, providername ^| findstr "%CD:~0,2%"') do (set cNetworkPath=%%i)
echo %cNetworkPath%

Answer 4

If you want it to always display it at your prompt, you could

set prompt=$M$Q$S$P

which will show you your UNC path and your drive letter based path.