Bash strings

Looping through some files I was having problems due to the full path. Removing the path up to the file name was resolved by the use of ${} and # chars Running this script should only echo the file name and not the full path /home/pi/bin/quickcpm/logs/filename You can then use just the file name if you need to. FILES=/home/pi/bin/quickcpm/logs/*.html cd /home/pi/bin/quickcpm/logs for f in $FILES do echo "Processing ${f##*/}" sleep 3 # cat $f done