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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2012-03-14 13:42:59 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2012-03-15 12:24:05 -0600 |
| commit | 9f5aa4850133976eee22dcc0b506d7b632cd674c (patch) | |
| tree | 868db0dba0e6b8dee1769deefe0417eae641571c /doc/coreutils.texi | |
| parent | 61167bae9f27269724dc577a19d2bd48a437bafb (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9f5aa4850133976eee22dcc0b506d7b632cd674c.tar.xz | |
realpath: let --relative-to default to --relative-base
Most of the time, if someone wants to filter which paths are
relative while leaving all others absolute, they also want to
to the filtering based on the same --relative-to directory.
Make this easier to specify.
* src/realpath.c (main): Convert error to default.
* doc/coreutils.texi (realpath invocation): Document this.
* tests/misc/realpath: Adjust test to match.
* NEWS: Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 39c9bbf67..835c245d4 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12904,14 +12904,16 @@ pertaining to file existence. This option is valid when used with @option{--relative-to}, and will restrict the output of @option{--relative-to} so that relative names are output, only when @var{file}s are descendants of @var{base}. Otherwise output the -absolute file name. Note: this option honors the @option{-m} and @option{-e} +absolute file name. If @option{--relative-to} was not specified, then +the descendants of @var{base} are printed relative to @var{base}. +Note: this option honors the @option{-m} and @option{-e} options pertaining to file existence. For example: @example realpath --relative-to=/usr /tmp /usr/bin @result{} ../tmp @result{} bin -realpath --relative-base=/usr --relative-to=/usr /tmp /usr/bin +realpath --relative-base=/usr /tmp /usr/bin @result{} /tmp @result{} bin @end example |