bash: extracting last two dirs for a pathname

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 di

Answer 1

dirname=/a/b/c/d/e
IFS=/ read -a dirs <<< "$dirname"
printf "%s/%s\n" "${dirs[-2]}" "${dirs[-1]}"