Linux commands: dirname
A quick guide to the `dirname` command, used to get the directory portion of a path
Suppose you have a path to a file, for example /Users/flavio/test.txt
.
Running
dirname /Users/flavio/test.txt
will return the /Users/flavio
string:
The dirname
command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment
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