dirname

Show directory portion of path. toybox

On Linux

Linux

from the toybox, 0BSD

dirname PATH...

Remove trailing filename portion from a path.

Calculate the parent directory of a given path

dirname path/to/file_or_directoryIdentify

Calculate the parent directory of multiple paths

dirname path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...Identify

Delimit output with a NUL character instead of a newline (useful when combining with xargs)

dirname --zero path/to/file_or_directory1 path/to/file_or_directory2 ...Identify