hpux man page for dirname

basename(3C)															      basename(3C)

NAME
       basename(), dirname() - extract components of a path name

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       takes the path name pointed to by path and returns a pointer to the final component of the path name, deleting any trailing '/' characters.
       If the string consists entirely of '/' characters, returns a pointer to the string "/".	If path is a null pointer or points to	the  empty
       string, returns a pointer to the string ".".

       takes the path name pointed to by path and returns a pointer to a string that is a path name of the parent directory of that file.  If path
       is a null pointer, points to the empty string, or does not contain a '/' character,  then returns a pointer to the string ".".

RETURN VALUE
       returns a pointer to the final component of path.

       returns a pointer to a string that is the parent directory of path.

EXAMPLES
       The following code fragment calls and

WARNINGS
       and may overwrite path.

       and in non-threaded applications currently use a static buffer in each function to hold the result string. Any subsequent calls to and  may
       overwrite the static buffer.  At some release after HP-UX 11i Version 1, HP may use to allocate the buffers.  Once allocated, those buffers
       will be reused and their addresses will not change; however, if the fails, and would return "." and would be set to

AUTHOR
       and were developed by HP.

SEE ALSO
       basename(1), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
																      basename(3C)