In message <199410310140.CAA01851@euterpe.owl.de>, Martin Husemann writes:
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>I *do* prefer the SVR4 way of ignoring trailing slashes.

I prefer the BSD way.
If you want to clear out everything in a directory, but keep it,
rm -rf dir/ is sort of a shorthand for rm -rf dir/* dir/.??* (or,
equally, rm -rf dir; mkdir dir (but then you have to worry about
possible chmod/chgrp).

	- MH