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

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

> 2015-04-10 22:11:37 -0500, Peng Yu:
> > Hi, ${VAR%%+(/)} has been suggested here. But it is not robust if $VAR
> > is just a bunch of slashes. Does anybody have a robust yet succinct
> > implementation? Thanks.
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9018723/what-is-the-simplest-way-to-remove-trailing-slashes-from-each-parameter
> [...]
>
> Try:
>
> dirname -- "$VAR/."

$ var=q/////////
$ dirname -- "$VAR/."
/

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