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Getting the Parent Directory name in shell

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Written by Harsh

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Q. I have a veriable called “SOCE”

set SOCE = “/servers/tools/SOCEncounter/tools.lnx86/bin/encounter”

Now I want to have

set SOCE = “/servers/tools/SOCEncounter/tools.lnx86/bin”

As you can see there is no “/encouner” at the end…..

Ans. set NEW_SOCE = $SOCE:h
now the variable NEW_SOCE will have the value “/servers/tools/SOCEncounter/tools.lnx86/bin”

set SOCE = $NEW_SOCE

OR

set NEW_SOCE = `dirname $SOCE`

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