dirname¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version historical.

Synopsis¶

Returns the 'head' component of a path, basically everything that is not the 'basename'.

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input path required		A path.

Note

The result of this filter is different from the Unix dirname program; where dirname for C(/foo/bar/) returns C(/foo), the dirname filter returns the full path (C(/foo/bar/)).

# To get the dir name of a file path, like '/etc/asdf' out of '/etc/asdf/foo.txt'.
{{ mypath | dirname }}

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	path	The directory portion of the original path.