Section 1 · User commands

dirname.1

Package: coreutils-common

DIRNAME

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.