Linux commands: dirname

A quick guide to the `dirname` command, used to get the directory portion of a path

Published Oct 16 2020

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