What is the simplest way to remove a trailing slash from each parameter?

Question

What is the simplest way to remove a trailing slash from each parameter in the \'$@\' array, so that rsync copies the directories by name?

rsync -a         


        

Answer 1

The accepted answer will trim ONE trailing slash.

One way to trim multiple trailing slashes is like this:

VALUE=/looks/like/a/path///

TRIMMED=$(echo $VALUE | sed 's:/*$::')

echo $VALUE $TRIMMED

Which outputs:

/looks/like/a/path/// /looks/like/a/path