How to cut a string after a specific character in unix

Using sed:

$ var=server@10.200.200.20:/home/some/directory/file$ echo $var | sed 's/.*://'/home/some/directory/file

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This might work for you:

echo ${var#*:}

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This will also do.

echo $var | cut -f2 -d":"

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