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Strip whitespace & trailing slashes in bash
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| # References: | |
| # http://bit.ly/bash-exit-status | |
| # http://bit.ly/bash-remove-slash | |
| # http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/wget/wget_27.html | |
| # Strip whitespace | |
| WS=`expr "$1" : '[[:space:]]*\(.*\)[[:space:]]*$'` | |
| # Strip whitespace and remove any trailing slashes | |
| WS_AND_SLASHES=`expr "$1" : '[[:space:]]*\(.*\)[[:space:]]*$' | sed -e 's/\\/$//g'` |
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