/* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003 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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #if HAVE_CONFIG_H # include <config.h> #endif #include "dirname.h" /* Remove trailing slashes from PATH. Return nonzero if a trailing slash was removed. This is useful when using filename 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 path that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */ int strip_trailing_slashes (char *path) { char *base = base_name (path); char *base_lim = base + base_len (base); int had_slash = *base_lim; *base_lim = '\0'; return had_slash; }