DIRNAME(1) - General Commands Manual #

DIRNAME(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

dirname - return directory portion of pathname

SYNOPSIS #

dirname pathname

DESCRIPTION #

dirname deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash (’/’) character to the end of pathname, and writes the result to the standard output.

EXIT STATUS #

The dirname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES #

The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin:

FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/tail`

SEE ALSO #

basename(1), [csh(1)](/man/man1/csh.1), sh(1), dirname(3)

STANDARDS #

The dirname utility is compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

HISTORY #

The dirname utility first appeared as an expr(1) script in AT&T System III UNIX. It was reimplemented in C for 4.3BSD-Reno and reimplemented again using dirname(3) for OpenBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS #

The original BSD version was written by Keith Bostic. The current OpenBSD version was written by Todd Miller <millert@openbsd.org>.

OpenBSD 7.5 - February 16, 2014