Similar commands to %temp%

Question

Are there any other commands similar to the %temp% command in windows.

For example is there one for My documents or application data?

Answer 1

%TEMP% is not a command, it is an environment variable. To see all your environment variables, execute the set command. Among others, you should see USERPROFILE whose value is the directory above My Documents. You can also execute set /? to read more about the set command.

Answer 2

%TEMP% is not a command; it's an environment variable. See this list for some examples for Windows.

Answer 3

There are lists of environment variables too.

Answer 4

Unfortunately there's no standard system-defined environment variable containing the path to the current user'sMy Documentsfolder for you to use.

However, since it is stored in the Windows registry, its value can be copied into an environment variable of you own making using the batch file commands I found shown below -- taken from this old web post by @eibgrad which places it into one named%my_docs%:

set reg_key="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"
set reg_val="Personal"
set reg_query='reg query %reg_key% /v %reg_val%'
for /f "eol=; skip=4 tokens=3*" %%i in (%reg_query%) do set my_docs=%%i %%j
if "%my_docs:~,13%" == "%%USERPROFILE%%" set my_docs=%USERPROFILE%%my_docs:~13%
echo %my_docs%

I added an extra line at the end to print out the value found.