How to cut a string after a specific character in unix

Question

So I have this string:

$var=server@10.200.200.20:/home/some/directory/file

I just want to extract the directory address meaning I only wan

Answer 1

For completeness, using cut

cut -d : -f 2 <<< $var

And using only bash:

IFS=: read a b <<< $var ; echo $b