Ubuntu bash script: how to split path by last slash?

Question

I have a file (say called list.txt) that contains relative paths to files, one path per line, i.e. something like this:

foo/bar/file1
foo/bar/ba         


        

Answer 1

A proper 100% bash way and which is safe regarding filenames that have spaces or funny symbols (provided inner_process.sh handles them correctly, but that's another story):

while read -r p; do
    [[ "$p" == */* ]] || p="./$p"
    inner_process.sh "${p%/*}" "${p##*/}"
done < list.txt

and it doesn't fork dirname and basename (in subshells) for each file.

The line [[ "$p" == */* ]] || p="./$p" is here just in case $p doesn't contain any slash, then it prepends ./ to it.

See the Shell Parameter Expansion section in the Bash Reference Manual for more info on the % and ## symbols.