Okay, so I was following a MERN stack tutorial and the tutor wrote out some lines of code but didn't really explain them well. this is the code: const path = require("path"); const { file...

If I have a file path such as... /home/smith/Desktop/Test /home/smith/Desktop/Test/ How do I change the string so it will be the parent directory? e.g. /home/smith/Desktop /home/smith/Desktop/...

My script: #!/usr/bin/env bash PATH=/home/user/example/foo/bar mkdir -p /tmp/backup$PATH And now I want to get first folder of "$PATH": /home/ cd /tmp/backup rm -rf ./home/ cd - > /dev...

Suppose I have a file /from/here/to/there.txt, and want to get only the last part of its dirname to instead of /from/here/to, what should I do?

as I already mentioned in the title, I'm looking for a JS-function for getting the same result like I get with this PHP code: dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) Thanks in advance!

I find myself needing to get a parent directory of a python file in a source tree that is multiple directories up with some regularity. Having to call dirname many times is clunky. I looked around...

How do I use the GNU C Library version of basename() and dirname()?. If you #include <libgen.h> for dirname You're already getting the POSIX, not the GNU, version of basename(). (Even if...

I have a folder structure as follows: mydomain.example ->Folder-A ->Folder-B I have a string from Database that is ../Folder-B/image1.jpg, which points to an image in Folder-B. Inside a sc...

I have a filename (C:\folder\foo.txt) and I need to retrieve the folder name (C:\folder) in C++. In C# I would do something like this: string folder = new FileInfo("C:\folder\foo.txt").Di...

Many of my colleagues use the following commands in their BEGIN block. $scriptDir = dirname($0); chdir($scriptDir); $scriptDir = getcwd(); I have looked around and can't help but think that the ...

Say I have a symlink from '/one/directory/' to '/two/directory/'. If I echo dirname(dirname(\__FILE__)), it returns '/one/directory/'. What is the best method to return '/two/directory'? Example...

Since I'm using both Windows' cmd.exe and msysgit's bash, trying to access the Windows-path output by os.getcwd() is causing Python to attempt accessing a path starting with a drive letter and a co...

I am using a php library which has this code: require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.php'; From what I've read, dirname(__FILE__) points to the current directory. So wouldn't it be easier to j...

Citing the manual here: The functions dirname() and basename() break a null-terminated pathname string into directory and filename components. In the usual case, dirname() returns the string u...

The only solution I've encountered is to use regular expressions and recursively replace the first directory until you get a word with no slashes. gsub("/\\w*/","/",gsub("/\\w*/","/",getwd())) I...

I want to create a simple bash script to launch a Java program on OS X. The names of the file, the file path, and the immediate working folder all contain spaces. When I do this: #!/bin/sh cd `dir...