Name
dirname — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
Synopsis
dirname path
The dirname
command prints
a file path with its final component removed:
$ dirname /users/smith/mydir /users/smith
dirname
does not change
your current working directory. It simply manipulates a string, just
like basename
does.
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