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One liner for adding or removing trailing slash of a string in Bash
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manipulate-trailing-slash.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Add a trailing slash to a string if there is not one already
STR="/some/example/path-without-slash"
echo "${STR}$(printf \\$(printf '%03o' $(($(printf '%d' "'${STR:(-1)}")==47?0:47))))"
# remove a (single) trailing slash on a string if there is one
STR="/some/example/path-with-slash/"
echo "${STR%/}"
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