How to separate out the directory and file name using shell script?

Question

I have some unique requirement, where I need to do something like this -
1. My script takes the argument as file name which is absolute filename.
2. I need to separate the filename and directory from this absolute file name for the further processing.

Any suggestions -

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter any file name or file path"
read fspec
filename="${fspec##*/}"
echo $filename
dirname="${fspec%/*}"
echo $dirname

Try this.

Comments

Thanks, let me try...

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Its working perfectly without any issue, thanks for the help.