How-To get root directory of given path in bash?

Question

My script:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    PATH=/home/user/example/foo/bar
    mkdir -p /tmp/backup$PATH

And now I want to get first folder of

Answer 1

You can try this awk command:

 basedirectory=$(echo "$PATH" | awk -F "/" '{print $2}')

At this point basedirectory will be the string home Then you write:

rm -rf ./"$basedirectory"/