dirname - Strip last component from file name
dirname
[-z|--zero]
[-h|--help]
[-V|--version] [dir]
Strip last component from file name
separate output with NUL rather than newline
Print help
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Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /s, output . (meaning the current directory).
v(uutils coreutils) 0.10.0
Calculate the parent directory of a given path:
dirname path/to/file_or_directory
Calculate the parent directory of multiple paths:
dirname path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...
Delimit output with a NUL character instead of a newline (useful when combining with `xargs`):
dirname [-z|--zero] path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.