How to remove the trailing slash from a variable which defines a directory from a time test output

Ubuntu 16.04 Even thou the output of for client in */; do doesn't produce a trailing slash, the trailing slash appears if I echo the variable $client while performing a time test on the file, within the loop. cd "$wDir" for client in */; do cd "$wDir"/"$client"; #-- check to see if any .csv files exists if ls *.csv &>/dev/null; then for csvfile in *.csv; do if test $(find "$csvfile" -mmin +2880); then echo "$client has files older than 2 days ..." >> "staleFtpAccts" fi done fi done When I execute the script, a / is placed after the $client variable like so: root@me /home/frank # bash script.sh Start ... 000029_000020/ has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000040/ has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000041/ has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000042/ has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000043/ has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... This is the result I am after ... root@me /home/frank # bash script.sh Start ... 000029_000020 has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000040 has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000041 has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000042 has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ... Start ... 000033_000043 has files older than 2 days ... #-- Finished ...