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Hi.

The shell ksh does not allow nesting -- like this:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh

# @(#) s1 Demonstrate nested parameter expansion in shell.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo,...

In fact, your command is good enough.

echo "/dir1/dir2/dir3/filename.stuff.morestuff.garbage" |awk -F "[/.]" '{print $(NF-3),$(NF-2),$(NF-1)}' OFS="."