n8blog » Utilities http://www.n8gray.org distraction in action Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 New: relpath http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2004/11/17/new-relpath/ http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2004/11/17/new-relpath/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:11:00 +0000 n8 http://www.n8gray.org/sandbox/wordpress/?p=70 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.

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