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

dirname

kent$  dirname "/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh"
/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin

sed

kent$  echo "/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh"|sed 's#/[^/]*$##'
/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin

grep

kent$  echo "/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh"|grep  -oP '^/.*(?=/)'
/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin

awk

kent$  echo "/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh"|awk -F'/[^/]*$' '{print $1}'
/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin