Get the name or location of current script and parent path

15/10/2012 15:49

#full name

$Myinvocation.invocationname

#path

$myinvocation.InvocationName | split-path -parent

 

#filename

$myinvocation.mycommand.Name

 

#MyInvocation.InvocationName doesn't work for PowerGUI, use this instead to get path of current running script

Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path

#Get current script File Name

$thisFileName = $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name

 

 

 

#Get parent folder of the path

$location="c:\temp\CodeBackup\"

$location

$path=split-path -parent $location

$path

#or

(get-item $location).parent.FullName

(get-item $location).parent.parent.FullName

 

Output:

c:\temp\CodeBackup\

c:\temp

C:\temp

C:\