[Leaplist] command line question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... is there a way intrinsic to tcsh, bash, or perhaps using awk, to 
'mask' off the 1st n (or last n for that matter) elements of a long 
pathname (i.e. go from '/some/darn/long/idiot/moron/path' to either 
'/some/darn/long' or /long/idiot/moron/path', for example) ? I have RTFM 
a fair amount & it is eluding me .... TIA ....


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