ref: 2e711a28c71e8667258e5ab824f9b9a71c261b0a
dir: /content/en/functions/path.Dir.md/
---
title: path.Dir
description: Dir returns all but the last element of a path.
godocref:
date: 2018-11-28
publishdate: 2018-11-28
lastmod: 2018-11-28
categories: [functions]
menu:
docs:
parent: "functions"
keywords: [path, dir]
signature: ["path.Dir PATH"]
workson: []
hugoversion: "0.40"
relatedfuncs: [path.Base, path.Ext, path.Split]
deprecated: false
---
`path.Dir` returns all but the last element of `PATH`, typically `PATH`'s directory.
The returned path will never end in a slash.
If `PATH` is empty, `.` is returned.
**Note:** On Windows, `PATH` is converted to slash (`/`) separators.
```
{{ path.Dir "a/news.html" }} → "a"
{{ path.Dir "news.html" }} → "."
{{ path.Dir "a/b/c" }} → "a/b"
{{ path.Dir "/x/y/z" }} → "/x/y"
```