Extracting directory name from an absolute path using sed or awk

Question

I want to split this line

/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh

to

/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin
         


        

Answer 1

May be command dirname is what you searching for?

dirname /home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh

Or if you want sed, so see my solution:

echo /home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh | sed 's/\(.*\)\/.*/\1/'