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The <c>[[file]].parent</c> method returns the parent path of the given file or directory, that is, the path of the directory that contains it.

=== Arguments ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Parameter Name !! Default Value !! Meaning
|-
| path || "" || file name, partial path, or absolute path to file or directory to get the parent of
|}

If given a file name or partial path, it will be interpreted relative to the current working directory (see <c>[[file.curdir]]</c>).

=== Result ===

This method returns a string containing the parent directory of the given file or directory. '''Note:''' if given the root path, "/", it returns "/" again — this is the only directory that is its own parent.

== Example ==

The following attempts to delete a file called "test.txt" in the [[file.curdir|current directory]].

<ms>s = "/sys/pics/food/Sushi.png"
while true
print file.name(s)
s = file.parent(s)
if s == "/" then break
print "...which is contained in..."
end while</ms>

The above, if run on Mini Micro (or any system with a similar directory structure), prints:

<pre>Sushi.png
...which is contained in...
food
...which is contained in...
pics
...which is contained in...
sys</pre>

[[Category:Mini Micro]]
[[Category:Command-Line MiniScript]]

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