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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:33:21 +0100
From: "mal content" <artifact.one@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Relative paths [was: Path transformation]
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On 21/08/06, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-Aug-21 16:05:33 +0100, mal content wrote:
> >I have another favour to ask: Is there a function that can
> >take two absolute paths and generate a relative path, from
> >source to destination?
>
> I don't think there's any such function.  My suggestion is to roll
> your own, based on realpath(3) by replacing the getcwd() with the
> first path and adding enough '../' to the second path to reach a
> common directory (or root) from the first path.

Done and done! Just checking to see that nobody had already done
it in the tree somewhere.

cheers,
MC