DIRNAME

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NAME

dirname - strip filename suffix from pathname

SYNOPSIS

dirname path

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of dirname. dirname prints the leading path part of the pathname path. If path does not contain a leading path, dirname prints `.' (meaning the current directory).

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