You could enumerate any attached drives and look for a predetermined file name to identify your data drive. It's not exactly elegant but it would work.
Jim On 12 March 2010 15:49, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, it's not running from a drive yet (I'm doing something weird which > I'll talk about later). I need the command to go out and find the drive to > use. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Butturini, Russell < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you tried using the %CD% environment variable? I think it will >> populate with the directory you’re running your script from. Also, are you >> doing this in VBScript or batch scripting? >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Crenshaw >> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 12:16 AM >> *To:* PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List >> *Subject:* [Pauldotcom] Drive letter from volume name >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> I'm writing a u3 script of sorts. I need to be able to know where to >> copy data to, but the drive letter will change depending on the box I stick >> it in. I want to do it all from one command line.Ive found a way as long as >> I know my drive's volume name (MyThumb ). This seems to work: >> >> >> WMIC logicaldisk list brief |findstr MyThumb > delme.txt && FOR /F >> "tokens=1*" %i IN ('type delme.txt') DO set ufddrive = %i\ >> >> But is there a cleaner way? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Adrian >> >> ****************************************************************************** >> This email contains confidential and proprietary information and is not to >> be used or disclosed to anyone other than the named recipient of this email, >> and is to be used only for the intended purpose of this communication. >> ****************************************************************************** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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