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dirname - strip non-directory suffix from file name
dirname
NAME
dirname OPTION
Print NAME with its trailing /component removed;
if NAME contains no /’s, output ‘.’ (meaning the current directory).
- --help
- display
this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
- dirname
/usr/bin/sort
- Output "/usr/bin".
- dirname stdio.h
- Output ".".
Written
by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 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.
basename(1)
, readlink(1)
The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
- info coreutils ’dirname invocation’
should give you access to the
complete manual.
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