Unix Command to get file path without basename

Try

$ dirname /home/files/myfiles/good.txt

linux bash shell unix

Should do the job:

echo /home/files/myfiles/good.txt | sed s,/*[^/]*$,,

linux bash shell unix

Without spawning another process, you can use parameter expansion:

file=/home/files/myfiles/good.txtecho "${file%/*}"/home/files/myfiles

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