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 19#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H 20# include <config.h> 21#endif 22 23#include "dirname.h" 24 25/* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. 26 Return true if a trailing slash was removed. 27 This is useful when using file name completion from a shell that 28 adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because 29 the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error 30 when given a file that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */ 31 32bool 33strip_trailing_slashes (char *file) 34{ 35 char *base = base_name (file); 36 char *base_lim = base + base_len (base); 37 bool had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0'); 38 *base_lim = '\0'; 39 return had_slash; 40} 41