S6-DIRNAME(1)

🌸 S6-DIRNAME(1) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the s6-dirname manual page, from the General Commands Manual — yes it's a whole thing, and yes it's adorable 💅

✨ NAME ✨

s6-dirname — print the dirname of a path 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s6-dirname [-n] path

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So s6-dirname is literally just the generic dirname[1] utility, but make it s6. it does the one (1) job and it does it iconically ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

standard options 💜

None. like, zero. none at all. she's lowkey minimal like that 🙈

non-standard options 🌈

• -n — do not print a trailing newline after the output. yes that's the whole thing, no cap. so your output just vibes there with no newline at the end 💀

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

these are the codes she'll hand you when she leaves, bestie — know them, memorize them, iykyk 👑

• 111 — temporary error 😭
• 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse 🙈 (don't misuse her pls)
• 127 — unable to execute program - not found 💀
• 126 — unable to execute program - other reason 🌸

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi to all of them 🫶

s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/dirname.html

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-dirname.html 🦋

💅 STANDARDS 💅

s6-dirname is suitable as a dirname[1] program conforming to . 🎀

and yeah bestie, the standards name after "conforming to" is literally blank in the original — not me being lazy, that's just how she came 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 this port is from Debian, dated April 18, 2022, and it's the S6-DIRNAME(1) page — slay, go print some dirnames 💖🧚‍♀️