#! /bin/sh # relpath - compute the relative path FROM -> TO # Copyright (C) 2011 Peter Breitenlohner # # This file is free software; the copyright holder # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. # First handle the simple case that FROM is a subdirectory of TO case $2 in "$3"/*) echo "X$2" | sed 's,^X'$3'/,,; s,[^/][^/]*,..,g' exit 0;; esac # Now the more general case, mainly for distro builds err () { echo "$*" >&2 exit 1 } test $# = 3 || err 'relpath PREF FROM TO compute the relative path FROM -> TO where FROM and TO are absolute paths, and prefixed with PREF are existing directories' chk () { case $2 in *' '* | *'/./'* | *'/../'*) err "'$2' contains ' ', '/./', or '/../'";; /*) ;; *) err "'$2' must be an absolute path";; esac test -d "$1$2" || err "'$1$2' not a directory" # Normalize, remove leading and trailing / res=`echo $2 | sed 's,^//*,,; s,//*$,,; s,///*,/,g'` } chk "$1" "$2"; from=$res chk "$1" "$3"; to=$res test "/$from" = "/$to" && { echo "."; exit 0; } # Remove common prefix while test "/$to" != "/"; do test "/$from" = "/" && { echo "$to"; exit 0; } test `echo $from | sed 's,/.*,,'` = `echo $to | sed 's,/.*,,'` || break from=`echo $from | sed 's,[^/]*/*,,'` to=`echo $to | sed 's,[^/]*/*,,'` done from=`echo $from | sed 's,[^/][^/]*,..,g'` test "/$to" = "/" || from="$from/$to" echo "$from" exit 0