# How to accèss parent directory in OS agnostic way

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-parent-directory-in-os-agnostic-way/22100>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-parent-directory-in-os-agnostic-way/22100 "2019-03-20T12:02:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ablaom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ablaom/32/4889_2.png) [@ablaom](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ablaom)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-parent-directory-in-os-agnostic-way/22100/1 "2019-03-20T12:02:05Z")

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In some package I do this:

```julia
const srcdir = dirname(@ __FILE__ )
const datadir = joinpath(srcdir, "../data/")

```

But I expect Windows will not like “…/”. What’s the right way to do this? I had trouble scrounging this from the docs.

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-parent-directory-in-os-agnostic-way/22100/2 "2019-03-20T12:19:54Z")

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`joinpath(srcdir, "..", "data")`

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**Author:** ![ablaom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ablaom/32/4889_2.png) [@ablaom](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ablaom)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-parent-directory-in-os-agnostic-way/22100/3 "2019-03-20T12:20:56Z")

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Of course. Thanks!