DIRNAME

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

dirname - strip last component from file name  

SYNOPSIS

dirname [,OPTION/] ,NAME/...  

DESCRIPTION

Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output '.' (meaning the current directory).

-z, --zero

end each output line with NUL, not newline

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

EXAMPLES

dirname /usr/bin/

-> "/usr"

dirname dir1/str dir2/str

-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"

dirname stdio.h

-> "."

 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report dirname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  

SEE ALSO

basename(1), readlink(1)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) dirname invocationaq

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO