bash - 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/baz/file2
goo/file3

I need to write a bash script that processes one path at a time, splits it at the last slash and then launches another process feeding it the two pieces of the path as arguments. So far I have only the looping part:

for p in `cat list.txt`
do
   # split $p like "foo/bar/file1" into "foo/bar/" as part1 and "file1" as part2
   inner_process.sh $part1 $part2
done

How do I split? Will this work in the degenerate case where the path has no slashes?

Answer 1

Use basename and dirname, that's all you need.

part1=$(dirname "$p")
part2=$(basename "$p")