Get the last string using a character as a delimiter in bash

Question

Right now I have this:

echo "silly/horse/fox" | cut -d "/" -f3
fox

But I want to be able to get the last string no matter how many delimiters we have.

So something like "silly/horse/fox/lion" would return me "lion"

Something of an equivalent to Python's string.split('/')[-1]

Answer 1

Pure bash solution:

$ foo="silly/horse/fox"
$ echo ${foo##*/}
fox
$ foo="silly/horse/fox/lion"
$ echo ${foo##*/}
lion

Using sed:

$ echo "silly/horse/fox/lion" | sed 's#.*/##'
lion