I have this long path of the temporary folder of a project: c:\\Users\\user\\source\\repos\\src\\etc\\even\\longer
I stored the string of text of the path in the file "path.txt" for the time being.
I would like to change directory from the windows command line like I would in Bash
$ cd `cat path.txt`
I tried with cd < type path.txt but I got.
The system cannot find the file specified.
You try to redirect the contents of a file named type to the cd command. The correct syntax would be cd < path.txt or type path.txt | cd - if cd would take input from STDIN, which it does not.
You have to read the content of path.txt to a variable and use cd with that variable.
There are two methods to read from a file: set /p and a for /f loop.
A
<path.txt set /p folder=
cd /d "%folder%"
or B
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in ("path.txt") do set folder=%%a
cd /d "%folder%"
or (directly processing) C
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in ("path.txt") do cd /d "%%a"
(All methods assuming there is just one line in the file - method A reads the first line only, method B reads all (non-empty) lines, keeping the last one in the variable and method C would cd in every folder listed in the file.)