batch parameters: everything after %1

Question

Duplicate:

• Is there a way to indicate the last n parameters in a batch file?
• how to get batch file parameters from Nth position on?

Clarification: I knew of the looping approach - this worked even before Command Extensions; I was hoping for something fun and undocumented like %~*1 or whatever - just like those documented at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true.

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In a Windows batch file (with the so called "Command Extensions" on), %1 is the first argument, %2 is the second, etc. %* is all arguments concatenated.

My question: is there a way to get everything AFTER %2, for example?

I couldn't find such a thing, and it would be helpful for something I'm working on.

Answer 1

There is a shorter solution (one-liner) utilizing the tokenization capabilities of for loops:

:: all_but_first.bat echo all: %* for /f "tokens=1,* delims= " %%a in ("%*") do set ALL_BUT_FIRST=%%b echo all but first: %ALL_BUT_FIRST% 

output:

> all_but_first.bat foo bar baz all: foo bar baz all but first: bar baz 

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Footnote: Yes, this solution has issues. Same as pretty much anything written with batch files. It's 2021. Use Powershell or literally any other actual scripting language.