How to get first two directories of path

Question

I have a path in linux bash script in a variable. This path could be

/a/b/c/d/t.json
/a/b/c/d/e/f/t.json
/a/b/t.json

I want to get the first 2 directories. The output should be /a/b for all 3 example paths above.

Answer 1

try:

 echo "$pathvar" | cut -d/ -f 1-3