[Gllug] Silly bash question: changing directory

[Joel Bernstein]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:33:34PM +0100, James Goldwater wrote:
> I'm betting myself this is trivial, but I can't figure out a 
> non-agonizing way of doing this involving 'cut -f -1' or something like 
> thats bound to break on weird filenames.
> 
> Given a file (say a/b/c/myfile.txt) I need to change directory to a/b/c. 
>   Is there a simple way of doing this in bash?

I'm sure you /could/ do it in the shell but it's much easier to just
hand it off to dirname(1).

/joel
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