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Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath

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From	Stephane CHAZELAS <Stephane.CHAZELAS@free.fr>
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Subject	Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath
Date	Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:07:56 +0000 (UTC)
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2011-08-19, 17:23(+00), Jens Schweikhardt:
[...]
> Write a POSIX shell function named 'relativepath' which takes as
> arguments two absolute canonicalized pathnames, and stores the relative
> path from the first to the second in the variable "result" or "." when
> the arguments are the same. Example: relativepath /foo/bar /foo/baz sets
> result to "../baz".
[...]

In the not-answering-the-question category, what about:

 printf '%s\n' "$1//$2/"|sed -e:1 -e'$!{N;b1' -e} -e'
       s|/////*|///|;s|\(.*/\)\(.*/\)\1|\2|;:2
           s|^[^/]*/\(\(.*/\)*/\)|\1../|;t2
                s|^/||;s|/$||;s/^$/./'

-- 
                      Stephane

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The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 17:23 +0000
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-19 18:13 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:12 +0000
      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 21:14 +0200
        Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:29 +0000
          Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 21:37 +0200
            Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 20:04 +0000
              Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 22:25 +0200
                Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 21:08 +0000
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-19 19:58 +0100
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:23 +0000
      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-19 22:18 +0100
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <Stephane.CHAZELAS@free.fr> - 2011-08-20 20:07 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-21 10:43 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-21 15:14 +0100
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      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-21 16:19 +0000
        Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-21 20:12 +0000
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    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-23 18:23 +0000
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        Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-23 21:56 +0000

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