1 /* dirname -- strip filename suffix from pathname
2 Copyright (C) 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
18 /* Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering. */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #include "long-options.h"
29 void strip_trailing_slashes ();
31 /* The name this program was run with. */
39 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
47 program_name
, program_name
);
49 Print NAME with its trailing /component removed; if NAME contains no /'s,\n\
50 output `.' (meaning the current directory).\n\
52 --help display this help and exit\n\
53 --version output version information and exit\n\
67 program_name
= argv
[0];
69 parse_long_options (argc
, argv
, "dirname", version_string
, usage
);
73 error (0, 0, _("too %s arguments"), argc
< 2 ? _("few") : _("many"));
78 strip_trailing_slashes (path
);
80 slash
= strrchr (path
, '/');
85 /* Remove any trailing slashes and final element. */
86 while (slash
> path
&& *slash
== '/')