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How can I extract the drive letter for a new mapped drive in a .bat?
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I'm creating a simple command-line backup script to use robocopy to mirror "important" stuff to my NAS box. I would prefer not to rely on a hard-coded mapped drive letter for that NAS box. In the script I would like to map a temporary drive letter, copy the relevant files, and dispose of the mapped…
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Use the commands and . will create a temporary drive (starting from Z: and going backwards till it finds an available letter) and go into it. When you're done, will delete the temporary drive and get you back where you were.
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