Delete everything before last / in bash

Question

I have many file paths in a file that look like so:

/home/rtz11/files/testfiles/547/prob547455_01

I want to use a bash script that will pri

Answer 1

awk '{print $NF}' FS=/ input-file

The 'print $NF' directs awk to print the last field of each line, and assigning FS=/ makes forward slash the field delimeter. In sed, you could do:

sed 's@.*/@@' input-file

which simply deletes everything up to and including the last /.