how to remove a trailing slash (/) at the end of dirname in tcsh

[Zhu Zhou]

Hi,
Just as title, are there any command in solaris which can do that easily
? or a walkaround is " how to 'ls' to let dirname output is not
followed with (/) ?
In my machine, the dirname always are always printed with a (/), but
some others are not , why ?

Thank u in advanced !

/zz

[Erik Max Francis]

Zhu Zhou wrote:

> Just as title, are there any command in solaris which can do that
> easily
> ? or a walkaround is " how to 'ls' to let dirname output is not
> followed with (/) ?
> In my machine, the dirname always are always printed with a (/), but
> some others are not , why ?

Likely you have an alias in place for ls that calls ls with the -F
option. Just remove the alias.

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[Zhu Zhou]

Thanks,But i found it 's better for me not to change this alias,:(
so any other easy script solution to remove it ?

/zz

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Zhu Zhou wrote:
> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> > Zhu Zhou wrote:
> >
> > > Just as title, are there any command in solaris which can do that
> > > easily
> > > ? or a walkaround is " how to 'ls' to let dirname output is not
> > > followed with (/) ?
> > > In my machine, the dirname always are always printed with a (/), but
> > > some others are not , why ?
> >
> > Likely you have an alias in place for ls that calls ls with the -F
> > option. Just remove the alias.
> >

[please don't top post]

>
> Thanks,But i found it 's better for me not to change this alias,:(
> so any other easy script solution to remove it ?

Use the full path to ls, e.g. /usr/bin/ls, or alias another command to
/usr/bin/ls.

If you have the path with a trailing slash in a variable:

case $var in
*/) var=${var%?} ;; ## any POSIX shell
## */) var=`expr $var : '\(.*\).` ;; ## non-POSIX shell:
esac

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[Bruce Barnett]

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <c.f.a....@rogers.com> writes:

> Use the full path to ls, e.g. /usr/bin/ls, or alias another command to
> /usr/bin/ls.

Or just type

\ls

(works for C shell aliases)

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