How to change the cmd directory to location of current batch file?

What code would I use to specify the directory to be the current location of the batch file that I'm running? For example, I want my script to access a file in the same folder as itself, but I want to be able to move the folder around without changing the script every time.How to change the cmd directory to location of current batch file?
%~dp0



As in:

echo foo %26gt; %~dp0foo.txt



That should write foo.txt into the same directory as your .bat file, no matter where you run it from.



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perhaps



cd ./



would work