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@ 2010-08-23 19:48 Jonas Bernoulli
  2010-08-23 20:31 ` Jonas Bernoulli
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From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2010-08-23 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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How does one get the parent directory of a directory in a way that
works on all supported platforms?

For regular files `file-name-directory` can be used but for
directories this just returns the given argument.

One could use `(file-name-directory (substring 0 -1 directory))` but I
have no idea wether this works on all platforms.

Thanks

Jonas



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