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Asked: 2026-06-05T16:02:59+00:00

I’m trying to remove part of the path in a string. I have the

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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 /path/to/file/drive and produce the output:

file/path/

Note: I have several paths in a while loop, with the same /path/to/file/drive in all of them, but I’m just looking for the ‘how to’ on removing the desired string.

I found some examples, but I can’t get them to work:

echo /path/to/file/drive/file/path/ | sed 's:/path/to/file/drive:\2:'
echo /path/to/file/drive/file/path/ | sed 's:/path/to/file/drive:2'

\2 being the second part of the string and I’m clearly doing something wrong…maybe there is an easier way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can also use POSIX shell variable expansion to do this.

    path=/path/to/file/drive/file/path/
echo ${path#/path/to/file/drive/}

    The #.. part strips off a leading matching string when the variable is expanded; this is especially useful if your strings are already in shell variables, like if you’re using a for loop. You can strip matching strings (e.g., an extension) from the end of a variable also, using %.... See the bash man page for the gory details.

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