how can i find the current working directory using batch files

Easy one :-)

echo cd%

Steve

Or even
echo %cd%

See here;

http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/08/12/getting-the-current-working-directory-from-dos-or-batch-file/

and here

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/28/362565.aspx

Good point... and do similar when I need to pickup files from batch file dir. but the current working directory is the default directory used if you do, say, an unqualified dir, for instance.  Same as unix pwd.

I like AmazingTech's suggestions for getting the batch file path to pickup associated files from the same dir BUT %CD% IS the current working directory which is what the question asked. Period.  If you do "copy something.txt d:\somewherelse.txt" it will pick it up from the %cd% directory.  That's what working directory is.