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  • Cool, I actually didn't know that [abc] would make a or b or c... Most of the time I use ranges like [a-z] and [0-9]... So in the end the \\ is more about windows users and sed -E 's/[\/][^\/]*$//g' would be enough to make it work on Linux... With the limitations that you mentioned though. Thanks! Commented Apr 15, 2022 at 5:19
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    @raylight Even sed 's/[/][^/]*$//' should do. Commented Apr 15, 2022 at 5:21
  • I see... I'd be more like the case in sed 's/\/[^/]*\/[^/]*$//g'. Going back two folders now... That ends up being better than using dirname multiple times in my opinion... Commented Apr 15, 2022 at 5:39
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    If you want to mangle Unix pathnames, consider basename(1), dirname(1), or perhaps the builtins to your shell. Commented Apr 15, 2022 at 19:17