GLib.path_get_dirname
Description: Reference for GLib.path_get_dirname

### Function

# GLibpath_get_dirname

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    g_path_get_dirname (
      const gchar* file_name
    )

#### Description [src]

Gets the directory components of a file name. For example, the directory component of `/usr/bin/test` is `/usr/bin`. The directory component of `/` is `/`.

If the file name has no directory components “.” is returned. The returned string should be freed when no longer needed.

#### Parameters

`file_name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The name of the file.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

The directory components of the file.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.