DIRNAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname
NAME
dirname
OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with its trailing /component removed; if NAME contains no /'s,
output `.' (meaning the current directory).
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
- dirname /usr/bin/sort
-
Output "/usr/bin".
- dirname stdio.h
-
Output ".".
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report dirname bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report dirname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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)
The full documentation for
dirname
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
dirname
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'dirname invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- EXAMPLES
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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