dirname

dirname
DevelopersVarious open-source and commercial developers
Written inC
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, IBM i
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
Licensecoreutils: GPLv3+

dirname is a shell command for extracting the directory path portion of a path, without the last name. The command is specified in the Single UNIX Specification and is primarily used in shell scripts.

The version in GNU Core Utilities was written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering. The command is available for Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project and UnxUtils and is in IBM i.

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