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From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonasbernoulli@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: parent directories of directories
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:48:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimk17MsxZLU7YYU+4=amj_KXFU=dsvGdsaqLE-8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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



             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 19:48 UTC|newest]

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2010-08-23 19:48 Jonas Bernoulli [this message]
2010-08-23 20:31 ` parent directories of directories Jonas Bernoulli

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