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dirname — Remove trailing filename portion from a path. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreut
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dirname command: Remove trailing filename portion from a path. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dirname-invocation.html>.Solution
dirname — Remove trailing filename portion from a path. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dirname-invocation.html>.Calculate the parent directory of a given path:
dirname {{path/to/file_or_directory}}Calculate the parent directory of multiple paths:
dirname {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}Delimit output with a NUL character instead of a newline (useful when combining with
xargs):dirname {{[-z|--zero]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}Code Snippets
Calculate the parent directory of a given path
dirname {{path/to/file_or_directory}}Calculate the parent directory of multiple paths
dirname {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}Delimit output with a NUL character instead of a newline (useful when combining with `xargs`)
dirname {{[-z|--zero]}} {{path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...}}Context
tldr-pages: common/dirname
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