The
utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash
`/'
character present in
string
(after first stripping trailing slashes),
and a
suffix
if given.
The
suffix
is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in
string
The resulting filename is written to the standard output.
A non-existent suffix is ignored.
If
-a
is specified, then every argument is treated as a
string
as if
were invoked with just one argument.
If
-s
is specified, then the
suffix
is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are treated as a
string
The
dirname
utility deletes the filename portion, beginning
with the last slash
`/'
character to the end of
string
(after first stripping trailing slashes),
and writes the result to the standard output.
EXIT STATUS
Ex -std basename dirname
EXAMPLES
The following line sets the shell variable
FOO
to
/usr/bin
