Feature #18925: Add `FileUtils.ln_sr` to create symbolic links relative to link location

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Usual File.symlink (and ln -s) creates a symbolic link as the given argument.
GNU coreutils ln has -r (--relative) option, which resolves the source path relative to the current directory as relative to the link location.

$ mkdir src dest
$ echo ok > src/x
$ ln -s src/x dest
$ readlink dest/x 
src/x
$ cat dest/x
cat: dest/x: No such file or directory
$ rm dest/x
$ ln -sr src/x dest
$ readlink dest/x 
../src/x
$ cat dest/x 
ok

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

https://github.com/ruby/fileutils/pull/97

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|c6330cd32b7d02b4603080a2c53d64be9e05773c.

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[ruby/fileutils] [Feature #18925] Add ln_sr method and relative: option to ln_s

https://github.com/ruby/fileutils/commit/5116088d5c