Subject: Re: bug#16730: ls -dF double trailing slash bug
From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
To: Radko Dinev <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:52:31 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tag 16730 notabug
thanks

On 02/12/2014 07:45 AM, Radko Dinev wrote:
> user@host ~$ ls -dF somedir
> somedir/
> 
> user@host ~$ 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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