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DIRNAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 2021
Index NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname[
,OPTION/]
,NAME/...
DESCRIPTION
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashesremoved; 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: <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <
https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://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 <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) dirname invocationaq
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLES
- AUTHOR
- REPORTING BUGS
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO
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