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Old 07-16-2008
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Have a look at:

Bash Reference Manual

and here,

Code:
echo ${PWD#${PWD%/*/*}/}

is 
echo ${PWD#X/}

where X = ${PWD%/*/*}

i.e it's a split in a split....