dirname

Return a directory name.

Usage

var dirname = require( '@stdlib/utils/dirname' );

dirname( path )

Returns a directory name.

var dir = dirname( './foo/bar/index.js' );
// returns './foo/bar'

Examples

var statSync = require( 'fs' ).statSync;
var path = require( 'path' );
var readDir = require( '@stdlib/fs/read-dir' ).sync;
var dirname = require( '@stdlib/utils/dirname' );

var files;
var fpath;
var base;
var stat;
var dir;
var i;

base = path.resolve( __dirname, '..' );
files = readDir( base );

for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ ) {
    fpath = path.join( base, files[ i ] );
    stat = statSync( fpath );
    if ( !stat.isDirectory() ) {
        dir = dirname( fpath );
        console.log( '%s --> %s', fpath, dir );
    }
}