get_parent

Gets the parent directory for the this.

If the this represents the root directory of the file system, then null will be returned.

This call does no blocking I/O.

Example: Get the parent directory:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	if (args.length != 2) {
		print ("%s DIRECTORY\n", args[0]);
		return 0;
	}

	File file = File.new_for_commandline_arg (args[1]);
	for (File pos = file; pos != null; pos = pos.get_parent ()) {
		print ("%s\n", pos.get_path ());
	}

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.get_parent.vala

Parameters:

this	input File

Returns:

a File structure to the parent of the given File or null if there is no parent. Free the returned object with unref.