Extract filename and extension in Bash

First, get file name without the path:

filename=$(basename -- "$fullfile")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"

Alternatively, you can focus on the last ‘/’ of the path instead of the ‘.’ which should work even if you have unpredictable file extensions:

filename="${fullfile##*/}"

You may want to check the documentation :

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