There are some scenarios where using or not using the trailing slash does actually make a difference, perhaps most prominently in the command-line arguments for rsync.
(I can never remember which is correct for a given behavior, so I invariably choose wrong. 🤷🏻♀️) > On Oct 16, 2022, at 11:16 AM, Lennart Poettering <mz...@0pointer.de> wrote: > > On Do, 13.10.22 00:56, Akbarkhon Variskhanov > (akbarkhon.variskha...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I noticed that the default value has a trailing slash for both directories: >> >>> If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to >>> /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used. >> >> I was wondering what's the benefit of including a trailing slash? Is >> there a specific purpose to it or is it a typo? With all due respect, >> it looks so out of place. Path-related variables usually strip it off. >> >> Sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place. > > Behaviour should be the same, hence it doesn't matter. > > Note that the root dir "/" necessarily ends in a slash, so it might > make sense to always suffix dirs like that, to make the root dir less > special. > > In systemd documentation we have the rule to always suffix dirs with > "/", to communicate that they are dirs. > > But seriously, whether to suffix dirs or not, effect is the same. And > to some level it's a bikeshedding questions wether to suffix or not. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Berlin
