Unix Command to get file path without basename

Question

I have following file in unix directory

/home/files/myfiles/good.txt

I need to extract the file path alone

Expected output : /home/files/myfiles

Note: I can not use cut operations as the file path is dynamic. I am getting the filename and filepath as single user input to the shell script

Answer 1

Try

$ dirname /home/files/myfiles/good.txt