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DIRNAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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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
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output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
- dirname /usr/bin/
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-> "/usr"
- dirname dir1/str dir2/str
-
-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"
- dirname stdio.h
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-> "."
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
basename(1), readlink(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dirname invocation'
Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 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.
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