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Re: [Help-bash] Best way to remove trailing '/' from a path?


From: Eduardo A . Bustamante López
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Best way to remove trailing '/' from a path?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:41:04 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:20:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:00:58PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> > I should have said to remove all trailing slashes.
> 
> I fail to see why ${var%%+(/)} is not the correct answer to that.
> Yes, it converts /////// to an empty string, but isn't that the
> desired outcome?
> 

Additionally, one can always do: "${var%%+(/)}/" to force the presence of at
least one slash.

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Eduardo Bustamante
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