The dirname command removes the non-directory part of the file name and only displays the content related to the directory, which is the opposite of the basename command introduced earlier. dirname keeps the last / and its preceding characters, and removes the rest. If there are no characters after the last / , dirname uses the second-to-last / and ignores all characters after it.
Syntax format: dirname [parameter]
Common parameters:
Example
dirname /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
# 最后一个字符是/，以倒数第二个/来判断dirname /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
# 相对路径dirname NVIDIA_CUDA-11.2_Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery/
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