UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a script that asks user to input a path like this:

Code:

echo "please input path"
read path

This works just fine but I want to make sure that the user inputs the path as /xyz/xyz

In other words, I want to make sure that they use a forward slash for the first part of the path with NO forward slash at the end of the second path. I want to print an error message if they enter it incorrectly. I assume I could use a test condition beginning like this as a start:

Code:

tryme=/dir1/dir1/
#if [[ $tryme == '^\/*\/.*[\/]$' ]]; then echo "error";else echo "no error";fi#

However grep correctly matches /dir/dir/ when I use this expression but not the test expression. What am I doing wrong? If the path is /dir1/dir1 "error" should be displayed.