[2/3] scripts: add lnr (link relative)
Submitted by Ross Burton on March 3, 2014, 8:23 p.m.
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Patch ID: 67903
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new file mode 100755
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+# Create a *relative* symlink, just like ln --relative does but without needing
+# coreutils 8.16.
+
+import sys, os
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+ print "$ lnr TARGET LINK_NAME"
+ sys.exit(1)
+
+target = sys.argv[1]
+linkname = sys.argv[2]
+
+if os.path.isabs(target):
+ if not os.path.isabs(linkname):
+ linkname = os.path.abspath(linkname)
+ start = os.path.dirname(linkname)
+ target = os.path.relpath(target, start)
+
+os.symlink(target, linkname)
lnr is a simple script to generate relative symlinks from absolute paths, similar to "ln -r" but without requiring coreutils 8.16 (Ubuntu 12.04 and others currently ship 8.13). Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> --- scripts/lnr | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100755 scripts/lnr