dirname Command

• dirname is mostly used in situations where you need to strip the last component from an absolute file name.
• used to remove the trailing forward slashes “/” from the NAME and prints the remaining portion. If the argument NAME does not contain the forward-slash “/” then it simply prints dot “.”.

Example:

# dirname /home/example/foo/

output: /home/example

# dirname foo/file.txt

output: foo

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