In Unix, you can extract the directory name from a path using the basename command and the dirname command. The basename command returns the file name from a path, while the dirname command returns the directory name from a path. To extract only the directory name, you can use the following syntax:
dirname /path/to/file
For example, if the path is “/home/user/Documents/file.txt”, the command dirname /home/user/Documents/file.txt would return “/home/user/Documents”.