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 want to remove the first N parts of the path, you could of course use N calls to dirname, as in glenn's answer, but it's probably easier to use globbing:

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

Specifically, ${path#*/*/*/*/*/} means "return $path minus the shortest prefix that contains 5 slashes".