How to set the working directory of a command in a Windows batch file?

Question

Let\'s say I have these commands:

Prog1.exe
D:\\SomeDir\\Prog2.exe
Prog3.exe

Now, say for the second line, I would like the working directo

Answer 1

What worked for me is adding a /d:

cd /d C:\nginx
ECHO Stopping nginx...
start nginx -s quit

(When I didn't have the /d, it didn't work.)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18310141/470749 tries to explain it.