Shell Programming and Scripting

I've been trying to figure out how to extract filenames (with extensions) from a variable that contains a series of URL strings that won't necessarily be the same length or contain the same number of paths as part of a bash shell script. For example

Code:

#!/bin/bash

URLS="http://www.domain.com/folder/filename.tar.gz http://www.anotherdomain.com/folder/subfolder/file.tar.gz"

for url in ${URLS}
do
  echo $url
done
exit 0

This outputs each of the URLs in turn, which is fine, but I'd need to be able to output just the filename and extension (eg. filename.tar.gz or file.tar.gz) - everything after the last forward slash but I haven't had any luck in getting anything close to working. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Code:

for url in ${URLS}
do
echo $url | awk -F"/" '{print $NF }'
done
exit 0

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Code:

#!/bin/bash

URLS="http://www.domain.com/folder/filename.tar.gz http://www.anotherdomain.com/folder/subfolder/file.tar.gz"

for url in ${URLS}
do
     echo ${URLS##*/}
done
exit 0

Use parameter expansion

Sorry about missing the CODE tags - I've updated the original msg. And thanks to the responders for the quick replies - both work great!