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I want to run a script that saves the current path into a variable, excluding the folder itself where the script runs in. Example:

/tmp/test/test2/test3/test.sh

path=$PWD
echo $path

Gives /tmp/test/test2/test3.
But I want to exclude the folder where the sh script is in.

So my desired output would be:
/tmp/test/test2

try the following code,

dirname "$(pwd)"

• dirname - strip suffix from file/dir path

You may use

dir=$PWD%/* # or: dir=$( dirname "$PWD" )

or

dir="$PWD/.."

or

dir=".."

In the first case, the PWD variable, which contains the current working directory, is used to get the path of the directory one level up by removing the last / and everything after it.

In the second case, the PWD variable is used to simply create a path for the directory above using ...

In the third case, we simply refer to the directory above using a relative path from the current directory.

Which alternative you use is dependent on what you are going to use the path for.

Examples:

$ echo $PWD
/tmp/shell-sh.jAtMYgn0

$ dir=$PWD%/*
$ echo "$dir"
/tmp

$ dir="$PWD/.."
$ echo "$dir"
/tmp/shell-sh.jAtMYgn0/..

$ dir=".."
$ echo "$dir"
..

Finally it was as simple as: current=$(dirname "$(pwd)")