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

Here is one example to find and replace file extensions to xml.

for files in $(ls); do

    filelist=$(echo $files |cut -f 1 -d ".");
    mv $files $filelist.xml;
done