how to shift all parameters in a batch

Question

The well-know shift command can be used to shift positional parameters in batch file, BUT it does not affect the special variable %*.

The shift command has no effect on the %* batch parameter.

Is there an alternative for shifting %°?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no, there is no built in syntax to do what you want. The best you can do is use a loop to build a variable containing the desired list of parameters. Each iteration adds %1 to the list and then shifts. The loop continues until there are no more parameters.

This will only work if the parameters do not contain any unquoted poison characters.

@echo off

shift /1
shift /1

set "remainingArgs="
:getRemainingArgs
if "%~1" neq "" (
  set ^"remainingArgs=%remainingArgs% %1"
  shift /1
  goto :getRemainingArgs
)
echo remainingArgs=%remainingArgs%