How to move up 1 directory ?

palkia has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi every1

I tried to google for it but couldn't find anything usefull (surprisingly).
I know I can use chdir to go down to a deeper directory, but how can I do the opposite (go up 1 directory) ?
Do I need to do something with %ENV or is there a simpler way ?

Thx

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Re: How to move up 1 directory ? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 05, 2011 at 01:24 UTC
`use File::Spec; chdir File::Spec->updir;` [download] There's nothing special about chdir. If you give it an absolute path, it'll attempt to change your current directory to that absolute path. If you give it a relative path, it'll attempt to change your current directory to that relative path. (The relative path for "parent of the current directory" is probably `..`, but if you want to be very cross-platform paranoid, use File::Spec.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to move up 1 directory ? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jun 05, 2011 at 01:23 UTC
`chdir ".." or die "Failed to go to parent directory: $!";`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to move up 1 directory ? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2011 at 03:34 UTC
`use Path::Class; use autodie qw' chdir '; warn dir->parent; chdir dir->parent; __END__ .. at - line 3.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]