[Gllug] Silly bash question: changing directory

[Russell Howe]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:33:34PM +0100, James Goldwater wrote:

> 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?

FOO="a/b/b/myfile.txt" echo "${FOO%\/*}"

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