Get the directory from a variable in a batch

Question

In windows batch file, having a variable %location% where is stored a full path (eg: e:\root_dir\sub1\sub2), how can one extract the full path excluding the drive letter? Result should be stored in a variable and for previous example result would be be\root_dir\sub1\sub2

Answer 1

This should do it:

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('%location%\') DO SET Result=%%~pA

Result of %location% being e:\root_dir\sub1\sub2 would yield %Result% = \root_dir\sub1\sub2\.