how to extract path from file location using shell how to extract path location from below given string. /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin/tnslsnr expected output. /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin (or) /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin/

### Use the shell's suffix removal feature


str=/opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin/tnslsnr
path=${str%/*}
echo "$path"


In general, `${parameter%word}` removes `word` from the end of `parameter`. In our case, we want to remove the final slash and all characters which follow: `/*`.

The above produces:


/opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin


### Use dirname

dirname can be used to strip the last component from a path:


$ dirname -- "$str"
/opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/bin