This is a little script that calculates the shortest relative path from a directory to one or more arbitrary paths. For example:
[n8gray@golux photos]$ pwd
/Users/n8gray/web/Sites/photos
[n8gray@golux photos]$ relpath . ~/Pictures/
../../Pictures
[n8gray@golux photos]$ relpath /usr/local /usr/local/bin/nedit
./bin/nedit
[n8gray@golux photos]$ relpath / /
./
[n8gray@golux photos]$ relpath . ..
../
[n8gray@golux photos]$ relpath . /usr/local ~/bin ../photos/Cats/index.html
../../../../usr/local
../../bin
./Cats/index.html
Caveat Emptor: Symbolic links are resolved when you give a relative path but not when you give an absolute path. I intend to make this more deterministic and controllable in the future.
Get it here. Python 2.3 required.
