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

dirname

  • Calculates the parent directory of a given file or directory path.
    More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dirname>.
  • Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

dirname --zero {{path/to/directory_a}} {{path/to/file_b}}

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