Trim output of command

Question

When I run the net view command, it will output similar to the following:

\\C66423
\\C66424
\\C66425
\\C66426
\\C66427
\\C66428
\\C66429
\\C66430
\\C66432
\\C66433

What I would like to know is if it is possible to trim out the \\ before each computer name?

Answer 1

PowerShell:

<new view command here> | ForEach-Object {$_.TrimStart('\')}

Answer 2

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%a in ('net view') do (
 set "string=%%a"
 echo !string:~2!
)

should do the trick (untested)

Answer 3

Similar to Magoo's answer but without the need for string manipulation, and therefore delayed expansion:

@echo off
for /f "delims=\" %%a in ('net view') do echo %%a

You could also add skip=2 to the for command to remove the first couple of lines of output - which is:

Server Name            Remark
-------------------------------