Extracting directory name from an absolute path using sed or awk

Question

I want to split this line

/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh

to

/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin
         


        

Answer 1

awk + for :

echo "/home/edwprod/abortive_visit/bin/abortive_proc_call.ksh" | awk 'BEGIN{res=""; FS="/";}{ for(i=2;i<=NF-1;i++) res=(res"/"$i);} END{print res}'