Function path_clean::clean

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pub fn clean<P>(path: P) -> PathBufwhere
    P: AsRef<Path>,
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The core implementation. It performs the following, lexically:

  1. Reduce multiple slashes to a single slash.
  2. Eliminate . path name elements (the current directory).
  3. Eliminate .. path name elements (the parent directory) and the non-. non-.., element that precedes them.
  4. Eliminate .. elements that begin a rooted path, that is, replace /.. by / at the beginning of a path.
  5. Leave intact .. elements that begin a non-rooted path.

If the result of this process is an empty string, return the string ".", representing the current directory.