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1 /* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
2 Copyright (C) 1990, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
19 # include <config.h>
20 #endif
22 #if STDC_HEADERS || HAVE_STRING_H
23 # include <string.h>
24 #else
25 # include <strings.h>
26 #endif
28 #include "dirname.h"
30 /* Remove trailing slashes from PATH.
31 Return nonzero if a trailing slash was removed.
32 This is useful when using filename completion from a shell that
33 adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because
34 the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error
35 when given a path that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */
37 int
38 strip_trailing_slashes (char *path)
40 char *base = base_name (path);
41 char *base_lim = base + base_len (base);
42 int had_slash = *base_lim;
43 *base_lim = '\0';
44 return had_slash;