[%CFEngine_function_prototype(path)%]

Description: Return the parent directory name for given path.

This function returns the directory name for path. If path is a directory, then the name of its parent directory is returned.

[%CFEngine_function_attributes(path)%]

Example:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(dirname.cf, #+begin_src cfengine3, .*end_src)%]

Output:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(dirname.cf, #+begin_src\s+example_output\s, .end_src)%]

Notes:

History: Was introduced in 3.3.0, Nova 2.2.0 (2011)

See also: [lastnode()][lastnode], [filestat()][filestat], [splitstring()][splitstring].