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Getting the parent of a directory from bash variable
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get-parent-directory.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42956288
# example: dir=/home/smith/Desktop/Test
parentdir=$(builtin cd $dir; pwd)
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