[ale] Looking for a one line script

[Jerry Yu]

The bash built-in should do the job:
i=/path/to/some/random/file.ext
pathOnly=${i%/*}

On 6/13/05, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to get the base path of a filename. For example, if I have
> "/path/to/some/random/file.ext" I need to trim off "file.ext" so that
> I am left with "/path/to/some/random/". However, the filename could
> contain spaces and other odd characters. Any suggestions?
> 
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