15Mar/100
Trailing Slash In Folder Path
Yesterday I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why a script was not working correctly. It turned out that the program waited for folder path with a trailing slash. The common practice is, however, not to have trailing slash in folder paths.
Anyway, it is always better to inform about trailing slashes explicitly if your program is not clever enough to determine it on its own. For example:
# Directory for generated files. No trailing slash! targetDir=/usr/local/data
or
$> generateData --help Usage: generateData <SOURCE_DIR> <TARGET_DIR> No trailing slashes in folder path!