How to cut the last field from a shell string

Question

How to cut the last field in this shell string

LINE="/string/to/cut.txt"

So that the string would look like this

LINE="/string/to/"

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think you could use the "dirname" command. It takes in input a file path, removes the filename part and returns the path. For example:

$ dirname "/string/to/cut.txt"
/string/to