Extract filename and path from URL in bash script

Question

In my bash script I need to extract just the path from the given URL. For example, from the variable containing string:

http://login:password@example.com/one/more/dir/fi

Answer 1

gawk

echo "http://login:password@example.com/one/more/dir/file.exe?a=sth&b=sth" | awk -F"/" '
{
 $1=$2=$3=""
 gsub(/\?.*/,"",$NF)
 print substr($0,3)
}' OFS="/"

output

# ./test.sh
/one/more/dir/file.exe