[debbugs-tracker] bug#16730: closed (ls -dF double trailing slash bug)

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regarding ls -dF double trailing slash bug
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: ls -dF double trailing slash bug Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:45:01 +0200

address@hidden ~$ ls -dF somedir
somedir/

address@hidden ~$ ls -dF somedir/
somedir//

Notice the double trailing slash which shouldn't be there in the second example.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#16730: ls -dF double trailing slash bug Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:52:31 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0

tag 16730 notabug
thanks

On 02/12/2014 07:45 AM, Radko Dinev wrote:
> address@hidden ~$ ls -dF somedir
> somedir/
> 
> address@hidden ~$ ls -dF somedir/
> somedir//
> 
> Notice the double trailing slash which shouldn't be there in the second
> example.

Not a bug.  Consider:

$ touch '*'
$ chmod +x '*'
$ ls -F '*'
**

ls -F is merely appending the indicator on the end of the name as you
typed it in, even if it results in what looks like a double indicator.

Where it gets interesting is on systems where / and // are distinct, but
for consistency, we still do:

$ \ls -Fd / //
//  ///


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