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  • Subject: relative paths etc...
  • From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:59:05 +0900

I seem to be wasting a lot of time on something that may already exist...

I'm trying to find a way to add/subtract paths to files.

Like, I have a path from / and I want to subtract it from the path to a given
file so that I end up with a path relative to the end of the first path. Sorry
it it's not clear:

original path:
        /path/to/folder

path to subtract it from:
        /path/to/folder/path/from/folder/file

result:
        ./path/from/folder/file

the idea being that I need to cd to the shortest path and work on the files
*relative to that position*.

I just want to know if there is a way to accomplish that that does not involve
weird (path as string) manipulations...

(I spent the whole morning fighting with the "a reference to" and I'm still
bleeding)

Jean-Christophe Helary
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@brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com


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