how to get everything before the last delimiter?

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hi all,

i have a string with a number of "/"s as delimiter.
and i want everything BEFORE the last delimiter

i know to use basename to get everything after the last delimiter.

thx a lot!

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dirname
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$ echo $PWD
/Users/scott/scripts

$ echo ${PWD%/*} 
/Users/scott
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