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1.9     ! schwarze   35: .Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2010 $
1.1       pjanzen    36: .Dt DIRNAME 1
                     37: .Os
                     38: .Sh NAME
                     39: .Nm dirname
                     40: .Nd return directory portion of pathname
                     41: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     42: .Nm dirname
1.2       millert    43: .Ar pathname
1.1       pjanzen    44: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     45: .Nm
                     46: deletes the filename portion, beginning
                     47: with the last slash
                     48: .Pq Sq \&/
                     49: character to the end of
1.2       millert    50: .Ar pathname ,
1.1       pjanzen    51: and writes the result to the standard output.
1.8       jmc        52: .Sh EXIT STATUS
1.6       sobrado    53: .Ex -std dirname
1.1       pjanzen    54: .Sh EXAMPLES
                     55: The following line sets the shell variable
                     56: .Ev FOO
                     57: to
                     58: .Pa /usr/bin :
                     59: .Pp
                     60: .Dl FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/tail`
                     61: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     62: .Xr basename 1 ,
                     63: .Xr csh 1 ,
                     64: .Xr sh 1 ,
                     65: .Xr dirname 3
                     66: .Sh STANDARDS
                     67: The
                     68: .Nm
1.4       jmc        69: utility is compliant with the
1.7       jmc        70: .St -p1003.1-2008
1.4       jmc        71: specification.
1.9     ! schwarze   72: .Sh HISTORY
        !            73: The
        !            74: .Nm
        !            75: utility first appeared as an
        !            76: .Xr expr 1
        !            77: script in
        !            78: .At III .
        !            79: It was reimplemented in C for
        !            80: .Bx 4.3 Reno
        !            81: and reimplemented again using
        !            82: .Xr dirname 3
        !            83: for
        !            84: .Ox 2.2 .
        !            85: .Sh AUTHORS
        !            86: .An -nosplit
        !            87: The original
        !            88: .Bx
        !            89: version was written by
        !            90: .An Keith Bostic .
        !            91: The current
        !            92: .Ox
        !            93: version was written by
        !            94: .An Todd Miller Aq Mt millert@openbsd.org .