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1 /* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
2 
3    Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 
5    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8    any later version.
9 
10    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
13    GNU General Public License for more details.
14 
15    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17    Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
18 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
19 __RCSID("$NetBSD: stripslash.c,v 1.2 2016/05/17 14:00:09 christos Exp $");
20 
21 
22 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
23 # include <config.h>
24 #endif
25 
26 #include "dirname.h"
27 
28 /* Remove trailing slashes from FILE.
29    Return true if a trailing slash was removed.
30    This is useful when using file name completion from a shell that
31    adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because
32    the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error
33    when given a file that ends in "/" (except for the root directory).  */
34 
35 bool
strip_trailing_slashes(char * file)36 strip_trailing_slashes (char *file)
37 {
38   char *base = base_name (file);
39   char *base_lim = base + base_len (base);
40   bool had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
41   *base_lim = '\0';
42   return had_slash;
43 }
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