I'm not sure I'm in the right forum. While at another site, I found a thread asking for a linux equivalent to pathrelativepathto. Anyone know it off the top of thier heads? 10q.

Ok, as I understand it, 'pathrelativepath()' takes two directories as arguments, and returns the path of the second directory, as a path relative to the first.

In other words

should return "../texts/novel".

I don't know of any such function off hand, but rolling your own should be fairly trivial:

Step 1: Express both directories as absolute paths.

Step 2: remove the parts of the paths that are the same:

Step 3: For each level in the first directory, prepend "../" to the second.

That, plus some error handling ought to get you where you need to go.

What language are you trying to write in?

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Programming and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

I don't know of any native linux commands that would do what you need, but I would image you can do it with perl. At quick glace, something like the 'abs2rel' in the 'File::Spec' module might work with a little creativity.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure which language he is using but I passed the solution.