Remove part of path on Unix

Question

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 /

Answer 1

If you don't want to hardcode the part you're removing:

$ s='/path/to/file/drive/file/path/'
$ echo ${s#$(dirname "$(dirname "$s")")/}
file/path/