Getting the parent of a directory in Bash

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8426058

  •  29-10-2019
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Question

If I have a file path such as...

/home/smith/Desktop/Test
/home/smith/Desktop/Test/

How do I change the string so it will be the parent directory?

e.g.

/home/smith/Desktop
/home/smith/Desktop/

No correct solution

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