DIRNAME

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 29, 1985
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NAME

dirname - display directory portion of a pathname  

SYNOPSIS

dirname string  

DESCRIPTION

dirname delivers all but the last level of the path name in string.

The following example will set the shell variable NAME to /usr/src/cmd:

NAME=`dirname /usr/src/cmd/cat.c`
 

SEE ALSO

sh(1), basename(1)


 

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