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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get parent directory of a file Post 302348278 by Radar on Thursday 27th of August 2009 08:47:10 PM
Old 08-27-2009
Code:
dirname /path/to/textfile.txt



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Code:
dirname /path/to/textfile.txt



---------- Post updated at 08:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:45 PM ----------

^ ^ ^ Odd, I only submitted once - no edit
 

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LFC_RMDIR(3)						       LFC Library Functions						      LFC_RMDIR(3)

NAME
lfc_rmdir - remove a LFC directory in the name server SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include "lfc_api.h" int lfc_rmdir (const char *path) DESCRIPTION
lfc_rmdir removes a LFC directory in the name server if it is empty. path specifies the logical pathname relative to the current LFC directory or the full LFC pathname. RETURN VALUE
This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the operation failed. In the latter case, serrno is set appropriately. ERRORS
ENOENT The named directory does not exist or is a null pathname. EACCES Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix or write permission is denied on the parent directory or the parent has the sticky bit S_ISVTX set and the effective user ID of the requestor does not match the owner ID of the directory and the effective user ID of the requestor does not match the owner ID of the parent directory and the requestor does not have ADMIN privilege in the Cupv database. EFAULT path is a NULL pointer. EEXIST The named directory is not empty. ENOTDIR A component of path prefix is not a directory. EINVAL path is the current directory. ENAMETOOLONG The length of path exceeds CA_MAXPATHLEN or the length of a path component exceeds CA_MAXNAMELEN. SENOSHOST Host unknown. SENOSSERV Service unknown. SECOMERR Communication error. ENSNACT Name server is not running or is being shutdown. SEE ALSO
Castor_limits(4), lfc_chdir(3), lfc_mkdirg(3), Cupvlist(1) AUTHOR
LCG Grid Deployment Team LFC
$Date: 2002/10/16 06:25:40 $ LFC_RMDIR(3)
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