On 03/13/2012 09:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Be aware that both approaches will misbehave if HOME is a root directory
> (/ or //), where you _don't_ want to strip trailing slashes. So you
> really want:
>
> case $HOME in
> *[^/]* ) HOME=${HOME%${HOME##*[^/]}} ;;
> esac
Actually, shortening /// to / is okay (it's only // that must not
unconditionally be shortened to /, due to POSIX specification and Cygwin
behavior of //), so a modified version would be:
case $HOME in
*[^/]* ) HOME=${HOME%${HOME##*[^/]}} ;;
/ | // ) ;;
*) HOME=/ ;;
esac
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