Trim (or go up) one level of directory tree in powershell variable
powershell
Solution
Getting the parent from a DirectoryInfo object, like Lee suggests, will certainly work. Alternately, if you prefer to use more PowerShellesque commands as opposed to direct .NET Framework calls, you can use PowerShell's built-in Split-Path cmdlet like this:
$source = "C:\temp\one\two\three"
$destination = Split-Path -Path $source -Parent
# $destination will be a string with the value "C:\temp\one\two"
Problem
Say you have the variable `$source = "C:\temp\one\two\three"` and you want to set `$destination` equal to `$destination = "C:\temp\one\two"` programmatically, how might you do it? The best idea I've had would be to trim that, but is there a better way? Perhaps something like ``` $source = "C:\temp\one\two\three" $dest = "..$source" ```