Remove part of path on Unix

Question

I\'m trying to remove part of the path in a string. I have the path:

/path/to/file/drive/file/path/

I want to remove the first part /

Answer 1

Pure bash, without hard coding the answer

basenames()
{
  local d="${2}"
  for ((x=0; x<"${1}"; x++)); do
    d="${d%/*}"
  done
  echo "${2#"${d}"/}"
}

• Argument 1 - How many levels do you want to keep (2 in the original question)
• Argument 2 - The full path

Taken from vsi_common(original version)