WMIC getting the grand parent in batch

Question

Have been able to put together the following which does work, but has a extra line at the end.

For /f "tokens=1,2 skip=1 delims=\" %%i IN (
  'WMIC service WHERE "name LIKE 'tomcat%%'" GET PathName'
) DO (
echo %%i\%%j
)
Pause

When run, we see:

• D:\tomcat
• D:\tomcat2
• \

and \ is not correct.

Answer 1

Wrap around another for /F loop to get rid of the Unicode-to-ANSI text conversion artefacts (orphaned carriage-return characters) left by for /F:

for /F "skip=1 delims=" %%a in ('
    wmic Service where "Name LIKE 'tomcat%%'" get PathName
') do (
    for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=\" %%i in ("%%a") do (
        echo %%i\%%j
    )
)

The outer loop reads the full lines except the one you want to skip; the inner one parses the text.