Re: [Help-bash] basename for n levels

[Eric Blake]

On 06/09/2015 10:32 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following thread shows for n = 2. Does anybody know what might be
> the most efficient and robust way to extract last n levels in bash?
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8223170/bash-extracting-last-two-dirs-for-a-pathname

Please try harder to make your questions self-contained.  Making people
chase down a URL is not as nice as directly pasting the code in question:

> I seem to have failed at something pretty simple, in bash. I have a string 
> variable that holds the full path to a directory. I'd like to assign the last 
> two directories in it to another string. For example, if I have:
> 
> DIRNAME = /a/b/c/d/e
> 
> I'd like:
> 
> DIRNAME2 = d/e

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