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


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Best way to remove trailing '/' from a path?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:05:46 -0600
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On 04/20/2015 03:00 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

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

Umm, $var and $VAR are different entities.  dirname -- "$var/." results
in the desired "q".

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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