Suppose you have a path to a file, for example /Users/flavio/test.txt.
Running
dirname /Users/flavio/test.txtwill return the /Users/flavio string:
The dirname command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment
Download my free Linux Commands Handbook
More cli tutorials:
- The Bash shell
- Introduction to Bash Shell Scripting
- The Fish Shell
- Shell, watch file content as it populates
- How to exit Vim
- UNIX Editors
- The UNIX Filesystem Commands
- Unix Shells Tutorial
- How to set an alias in a macOS or Linux shell
- A practical guide to Homebrew
- How to fix the xcrun invalid active developer path error in macOS
- The Command Line for Complete Beginners
- Introduction to Linux
- How to find the process that is using a port
- Linux commands: mkdir
- Linux commands: cd
- Linux commands: pwd
- Linux commands: rmdir
- Linux commands: ls
- Linux commands: mv
- Linux commands: cp
- Linux commands: less
- Linux commands: tail
- Linux commands: touch
- Linux commands: cat
- Linux commands: find
- Linux commands: ln
- Linux commands: ps
- Linux commands: echo
- Linux commands: top
- Linux commands: kill
- Linux commands: killall
- Linux commands: alias
- Linux commands: jobs
- Linux commands: bg
- Linux commands: fg
- Linux commands: type
- Linux commands: which
- Linux commands: whoami
- Linux commands: who
- Linux commands: clear
- Linux commands: su
- Linux commands: sudo
- Linux commands: chown
- Linux commands: chmod
- Linux commands: passwd
- Linux commands: open
- Linux commands: wc
- Linux commands: history
- Linux commands: du
- Linux commands: umask
- Linux commands: grep
- Linux commands: man
- Linux commands: uname
- Linux commands: sort
- Linux commands: uniq
- Linux commands: diff
- Linux commands: nohup
- Linux commands: df
- Linux commands: xargs
- Linux commands: gzip
- Linux commands: gunzip
- Linux commands: ping
- Linux commands: traceroute
- Linux commands: tar
- Linux commands: export
- Linux commands: crontab
- Linux commands: dirname
- Linux commands: basename
- Linux commands: printenv
- Linux commands: env
- A short guide to the ed editor
- A short guide to vim
- A short guide to emacs
- A short guide to nano
- Linux, no space left on device
- How to use Netcat