Function: tramp-handle-file-name-directory

tramp-handle-file-name-directory is a byte-compiled function defined in tramp.el.gz.

Signature

(tramp-handle-file-name-directory FILE)

Documentation

Like file-name-directory for Tramp files.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp.el.gz
(defun tramp-handle-file-name-directory (file)
  "Like `file-name-directory' for Tramp files."
  ;; Everything except the last filename thing is the directory.  We
  ;; cannot apply `with-parsed-tramp-file-name', because this expands
  ;; the remote file name parts.
  (let ((v (tramp-dissect-file-name file t)))
    ;; Run the command on the localname portion only.  If this returns
    ;; nil, mark also the localname part of `v' as nil.
    (tramp-make-tramp-file-name
     v (or (tramp-run-real-handler
	    #'file-name-directory (list (tramp-file-name-localname v)))
	   'noloc))))