/* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include <config.h> #endif #include "dirname.h" /* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error when given a file that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */ bool strip_trailing_slashes (char *file) { char *base = base_name (file); char *base_lim = base + base_len (base); bool had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0'); *base_lim = '\0'; return had_slash; }