Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think there are some potential issues with doubling separators and final
> separators on dirs. On Unix file systems /part1//part2 and /path/to/dir/
> are valid. However, file systems on Unix may not be Unix file systems:
> examples are earlier MacOS systems on MacOS X and mounted Windows and
> Novell systems on Linux. I would not want to assume that all of these
> combinations worked.
Also, beware that some applications treat trailing spaces specially,
notably rsync:
a trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to
transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine
foo into the /data/tmp/. A trailing / on a source name means
"copy the contents of this directory". Without a trailing slash
it means "copy the directory". This difference becomes
particularly important when using the --delete option.
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