dirname

Options

--zero, -z

dirname-zero-help

Examples

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 ...}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.