NAME

dirname — return the parent directory of a file pathname

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Returns the parent directory of string.

EXIT STATUS

The dirname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

direname(3)

STANDARDS

dirname should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>