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Want to cut right before second trailing slash?

I wanted to cut the following rows right before second trailing slash.

Like

/home/john
/home/mathew
/home/alexander/public_html/path/to/file/1
/home/testuser/public_html/path/to/file/1
/home/hellouser/public_html/path/to/file/13

TO

/home/john
/home/mathew
/home/alexander
/home/testuser
/home/hellouser

How this can be done? using grep or cut or awk or sed? I am not sure.

Solution

  • You can use awk 

    awk -F/ '{print "/" $2 "/" $3}'