suse man page for dirname

Query: dirname

OS: suse

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DIRNAME(1)							   User Commands							DIRNAME(1)

NAME
dirname - strip non-directory suffix from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname NAME dirname OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with its trailing /component removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output `.' (meaning the current directory). --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
dirname /usr/bin/sort Output "/usr/bin". dirname stdio.h Output ".".
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report dirname bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.
SEE ALSO
basename(1), readlink(1) The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'dirname invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 DIRNAME(1)
Related Man Pages
false(1) - suse
dirname(1) - linux
dirname(1) - centos
basename(1) - suse
pwd(1) - suse
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