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Prototype: dirname(path)

Return type: string

Description: Return the parent directory name for given path.

This function returns the directory name for path. If path is a directory, then the name of its parent directory is returned.

Arguments:

• path : File path, in the range .*

Example:

    vars:
      "apache_dir" string => dirname("/etc/apache2/httpd.conf");

Notes:

History: Was introduced in 3.3.0, Nova 2.2.0 (2011)

See also: [lastnode()][lastnode], [filestat()][filestat], [splitstring()][splitstring].