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scripts: add lnr (link relative)

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>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Ross Burton 10 years ago
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
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+# 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)