From: "nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)" <noreply@...>
Date: 2022-07-19T08:53:41+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:109241] [Ruby master Feature#18925] Add `FileUtils.ln_sr` to create symbolic links relative to link location

Issue #18925 has been reported by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).

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Feature #18925: Add `FileUtils.ln_sr` to create symbolic links relative to link location
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18925

* Author: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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Usual `File.symlink` (and `ln -s`) creates a symbolic link as the given argument.
GNU coreutils `ls` has `-r` (`--relative`) option, which resolves the source path relative to the current directory as relative to the link location.

```shell-session
$ 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
```




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