How to get just the parent directory name of a specific file

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Use File‘s getParentFile() method and String.lastIndexOf() to retrieve just the immediate parent directory.

Mark’s comment is a better solution thanlastIndexOf():

file.getParentFile().getName();

These solutions only works if the file has a parent file (e.g., created via one of the file constructors taking a parent File). When getParentFile() is null you’ll need to resort to using lastIndexOf, or use something like Apache Commons’ FileNameUtils.getFullPath():

FilenameUtils.getFullPathNoEndSeparator(file.getAbsolutePath());
=> C:/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd

There are several variants to retain/drop the prefix and trailing separator. You can either use the same FilenameUtils class to grab the name from the result, use lastIndexOf, etc.

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