Truncate a string

[BryanY]

Basically, I have a file location stored as a string.

Ex: "/export/home/user/data.txt

I would like to remove the filename from the path.

Ex: "/export/home/user"


How would I do that? ("/export/home/user/" is also OK)

 

[cdlvj]

try dirname

 

[PHV]

man dirname

a="/export/home/user"
# the dirname way
echo $(dirname a)
# the ksh way
echo ${a%/*}

Hope This Helps, PH.
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