%~ (percent tilde)

When a command-line argument contains a file name, special syntax can be used to get various information about the file.

The following expand to various information about the file passed as %1:

Syntax	Expansion Result	Example
%~1	%1 with no enclosing quotation marks	Not provided
%~f1	Full path with a drive letter	C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
%~d1	Drive letter	C:
%~p1	Drive-less path with the trailing backslash	\Windows\System32\
%~n1	For a file, the file name without path and extensionFor a folder, the folder name	notepad
%~x1	File name extension including the period	.exe
%~s1	Modify of f, n and x to use short name	Not provided
%~a1	File attributes	--a------
%~t1	Date and time of last modification of the file	02.11.2006 11:45
%~z1	File size	151040
%~pn1	A combination of p and n	\Windows\System32\notepad
%~dpnx1	A combination of several letters	C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
%~$PATH:1	The full path of the first match found in the folders present in the PATH variable, or an empty string in no match.
%~n0	%~n applied to %0:The extensionless name of the batch	tildetest
%~nx0	%~nx applied to %0:The name of the batch	tildetest.bat
%~d0	%~f applied to %0:The drive letter of the batch	C:
%~dp0	%~dp applied to %0:The folder of the batch with trailing backslash	C:\Users\Joe Hoe\

The same syntax applies to single-letter variables created by FOR command, such as %%i.

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