DIRNAME(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

✨ NAME ✨

dirname — the little icon that strips the last component off a file name 🎀

💫 SYNOPSIS 💫

dirname [OPTION] NAME...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Strip last component from file name. That's it, that's the whole vibe — it takes your path and yeets the last piece off the end 💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -z, --zero — separate output with NUL rather than newline. Ngl this one's for the girlies piping into other tools that hate newlines 🫶
  • -h, --help — Print help. Your emotional support flag 💖
  • -V, --version — Print version. So you know exactly which era of dirname you're living in ⭐

🔥 EXTRA 🔥

Okay so here's the actual tea, bestie — the real behavior lives here ☕

Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output . (meaning the current directory).

Read that again fr fr: no slash in your input? You get a . back. It's giving "I looked everywhere and the answer is right here" 😭✨

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

And that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, every flag and every rule accounted for 🧚💜 This iconic little number dropped 2026-09-17, brought to you by the uutils coreutils girlies at version 0.12.0 — go strip some paths, you absolute main character 🌈👑

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