How do I get a file path without filename in PowerShell?

Question

I have C:\Temp\MyFolder\mytextfile.txt in a variable called $file

I want C:\Temp\MyFolder\ in another variable.

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score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '22 at 06:56

This is quite simple You can use this piece of code to do it:

If you want to extract file path from the your $file variable :

$file = 'C:\Temp\MyFolder\mytextfile.txt'

$myFilePath = Split-Path $file -Parent

$myFilePath = $myFilePath+'\'

Write-Host $myFilePath

If you want to extract only file name then,

$file = 'C:\Temp\MyFolder\mytextfile.txt'

$myFileName = Split-Path $file -leaf

Write-Host $myFileName

I know this is a old question but still, If you find this answer helpful please mark this as accepted, Thank you Happy coding :)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '21 at 09:27

You could have found this using:

   $file.psobject.properties

or

   $file | get-member -membertype properties

you can obtain your result in different forms there:

   $file.PSParentPath
   $file.Directory
   $file.DirectoryName

or using

   $file | Select-object DirectoryName

or

   $file | select DirectoryName

(you can add -ExpandProperties to these before DirectoryName to have an output as base property type which is String here)

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