dirname - strip last component from file name
dirname [OPTION] NAME...
DIRNAME(1) User Commands DIRNAME(1) 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/> Report dirname translation bugs to <https://translationpro- ject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2018 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. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------+ |Availability | file/gnu-coreutils | +---------------+--------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------+ SEE ALSO basename(1), readlink(1) Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dirname invocation' NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core- utils-8.30.tar.xz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils. GNU coreutils 8.30 July 2018 DIRNAME(1)