Getting the path from a variable

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I am having a variable
Like

line="/dir1/dir2/gr3/file.ksh"

I need to get the /dir1/dir2/gr3 alone. the no of directories may differ at each time.

Please advice. thanks in advance.

2 
echo $line | sed 's [^/]*$  '
3

thank you danmero. it is working.

4

There are also the dirname(1) and basename(1) commands

$ line="/dir1/dir2/gr3/file.ksh"
$ echo $line
/dir1/dir2/gr3/file.ksh
$ basename $line
file.ksh
$ dirname $line
/dir1/dir2/gr3
$