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<H1>REVPATH</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: imake 1.0.7<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
revpath - generate a relative path that can be used to undo a change-directory
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>revpath</B>
<I>path</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The
<I>revpath</I>
program prints out a relative path that is the ``reverse'' or ``inverse'' of
<I>path</I>.
Start with two directories
<I>top</I>
and
<I>bottom</I>,
with the latter below the former, and
<I>path</I>
is the location of
<I>bottom</I>
relative to
<I>top</I>.
The output of
<I>revpath</I>
is the location of
<I>top</I>
relative to
<I>bottom</I>.
The resulting path contains a trailing `/' character when the result is
non-trivial.
If
<I>path</I>
is equivalent to `.', the resulting output is empty.
If
<I>path</I>
is invalid in some way (e.g., doesn't represent the path to a subdirectory)
the output is also empty and no error messages are ever generated.
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<H2>DIAGNOSTICS</H2>
There are no diagnostics. Error conditions are silently ignored, and the
exit status is always 0.
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
It isn't possible to reverse arbitrary relative paths.
If any path element between the two end points of
<I>path</I>
is a symbolic link, the results will probably be incorrect.
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