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

Great solution from this source

p=/foo/bar/file1
path=$( echo ${p%/*} )
file=$( echo ${p##/*/} )

This also works with spaces in the path!