[Gllug] Silly bash question: changing directory

[James Goldwater]

Joel Bernstein wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> I'm sure you /could/ do it in the shell but it's much easier to just
> hand it off to dirname(1).
> 
> /joel

Thanks, just what I was looking for.  -And- Vaughn's on form.  It's a 
great afternoon.
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