lib/stripslash.c

   1 /* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
   2    Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   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.
   8
   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.
  13
  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.  */
  17
  18 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
  19 # include <config.h>
  20 #endif
  21
  22 #include "dirname.h"
  23
  24 /* Remove trailing slashes from PATH.
  25    Return true if a trailing slash was removed.
  26    This is useful when using filename completion from a shell that
  27    adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because
  28    the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error
  29    when given a path that ends in "/" (except for the root directory).  */
  30
  31 bool
  32 strip_trailing_slashes (char *path)
  33 {
  34   char *base = base_name (path);
  35   char *base_lim = base + base_len (base);
  36   bool had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
  37   *base_lim = '\0';
  38   return had_slash;
  39 }