how to split in unix using special character

Question

I have a line like below:

/home/user/pigscripts/abc.pig

Can anybody help me in writing a shell script or unix command.

I want to get only abc from above line. the out put should give me only
abc

Answer 1

$ python -c "import os; base, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename('/home/user/pigscripts/abc.pig')); print base"
pig