Convert absolute path into relative path given a current directory using Bash

Question

Example:

absolute="/foo/bar"
current="/foo/baz/foo"

# Magic

relative="../../bar"

How do I create the magic (hopefully not too complicated code...)?

Answer 1

Using realpath from GNU coreutils 8.23 is the simplest, I think:

$ realpath --relative-to="$file1" "$file2"

For example:

$ realpath --relative-to=/usr/bin/nmap /tmp/testing
../../../tmp/testing

Answer 2

$ python -c "import os.path; print os.path.relpath('/foo/bar', '/foo/baz/foo')"

gives:

../../bar

Answer 3

This is a corrected, fully functional improvement of the currently best rated solution from @pini (which sadly handle only a few cases)

Reminder : '-z' test if the string is zero-length (=empty) and '-n' test if the string is not empty.

# both $1 and $2 are absolute paths beginning with /
# returns relative path to $2/$target from $1/$source
source=$1
target=$2

common_part=$source # for now
result="" # for now

while [[ "${target#$common_part}" == "${target}" ]]; do
    # no match, means that candidate common part is not correct
    # go up one level (reduce common part)
    common_part="$(dirname $common_part)"
    # and record that we went back, with correct / handling
    if [[ -z $result ]]; then
        result=".."
    else
        result="../$result"
    fi
done

if [[ $common_part == "/" ]]; then
    # special case for root (no common path)
    result="$result/"
fi

# since we now have identified the common part,
# compute the non-common part
forward_part="${target#$common_part}"

# and now stick all parts together
if [[ -n $result ]] && [[ -n $forward_part ]]; then
    result="$result$forward_part"
elif [[ -n $forward_part ]]; then
    # extra slash removal
    result="${forward_part:1}"
fi

echo $result

Test cases :

compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A"           -->  "../.."
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B"         -->  ".."
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B/C"       -->  ""
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B/C/D"     -->  "D"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B/C/D/E"   -->  "D/E"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B/D"       -->  "../D"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/B/D/E"     -->  "../D/E"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/D"         -->  "../../D"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/A/D/E"       -->  "../../D/E"
compute_relative.sh "/A/B/C" "/D/E/F"       -->  "../../../D/E/F"

Answer 4

It is built in to Perl since 2001, so it works on nearly every system you can imagine, even VMS.

perl -e 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->abs2rel(@ARGV) . "\n"' FILE BASE

Also, the solution is easy to understand.

So for your example:

perl -e 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->abs2rel(@ARGV) . "\n"' $absolute $current

...would work fine.

Answer 5

#!/bin/bash
# both $1 and $2 are absolute paths
# returns $2 relative to $1

source=$1
target=$2

common_part=$source
back=
while [ "${target#$common_part}" = "${target}" ]; do
  common_part=$(dirname $common_part)
  back="../${back}"
done

echo ${back}${target#$common_part/}

Answer 6

Presuming that you have installed: bash, pwd, dirname, echo; then relpath is

#!/bin/bash
s=$(cd ${1%%/};pwd); d=$(cd $2;pwd); b=; while [ "${d#$s/}" == "${d}" ]
do s=$(dirname $s);b="../${b}"; done; echo ${b}${d#$s/}

I've golfed the answer from pini and a few other ideas

Note: This requires both paths to be existing folders. Files will not work.

Answer 7

Python's os.path.relpath as a shell function

The goal of this relpath exercise is to mimic Python 2.7's os.path.relpath function (available from Python version 2.6 but only working properly in 2.7), as proposed by xni. As a consequence, some of the results may differ from functions provided in other answers.

(I have not tested with newlines in paths simply because it breaks the validation based on calling python -c from ZSH. It would certainly be possible with some effort.)

Regarding “magic” in Bash, I have given up looking for magic in Bash long ago, but I have since found all the magic I need, and then some, in ZSH.

Consequently, I propose two implementations.

The first implementation aims to be fully POSIX-compliant. I have tested it with /bin/dash on Debian 6.0.6 “Squeeze”. It also works perfectly with /bin/sh on OS X 10.8.3, which is actually Bash version 3.2 pretending to be a POSIX shell.

The second implementation is a ZSH shell function that is robust against multiple slashes and other nuisances in paths. If you have ZSH available, this is the recommended version, even if you are calling it in the script form presented below (i.e. with a shebang of #!/usr/bin/env zsh) from another shell.

Finally, I have written a ZSH script that verifies the output of the relpath command found in $PATH given the test cases provided in other answers. I added some spice to those tests by adding some spaces, tabs, and punctuation such as ! ? * here and there and also threw in yet another test with exotic UTF-8 characters found in vim-powerline.

POSIX shell function

First, the POSIX-compliant shell function. It works with a variety of paths, but does not clean multiple slashes or resolve symlinks.

#!/bin/sh
relpath () {
    [ $# -ge 1 ] && [ $# -le 2 ] || return 1
    current="${2:+"$1"}"
    target="${2:-"$1"}"
    [ "$target" != . ] || target=/
    target="/${target##/}"
    [ "$current" != . ] || current=/
    current="${current:="/"}"
    current="/${current##/}"
    appendix="${target##/}"
    relative=''
    while appendix="${target#"$current"/}"
        [ "$current" != '/' ] && [ "$appendix" = "$target" ]; do
        if [ "$current" = "$appendix" ]; then
            relative="${relative:-.}"
            echo "${relative#/}"
            return 0
        fi
        current="${current%/*}"
        relative="$relative${relative:+/}.."
    done
    relative="$relative${relative:+${appendix:+/}}${appendix#/}"
    echo "$relative"
}
relpath "$@"

ZSH shell function

Now, the more robust zsh version. If you would like it to resolve the arguments to real paths à la realpath -f (available in the Linux coreutils package), replace the :a on lines 3 and 4 with :A.

To use this in zsh, remove the first and last line and put it in a directory that is in your $FPATH variable.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
relpath () {
    [[ $# -ge 1 ]] && [[ $# -le 2 ]] || return 1
    local target=${${2:-$1}:a} # replace `:a' by `:A` to resolve symlinks
    local current=${${${2:+$1}:-$PWD}:a} # replace `:a' by `:A` to resolve symlinks
    local appendix=${target#/}
    local relative=''
    while appendix=${target#$current/}
        [[ $current != '/' ]] && [[ $appendix = $target ]]; do
        if [[ $current = $appendix ]]; then
            relative=${relative:-.}
            print ${relative#/}
            return 0
        fi
        current=${current%/*}
        relative="$relative${relative:+/}.."
    done
    relative+=${relative:+${appendix:+/}}${appendix#/}
    print $relative
}
relpath "$@"

Test script

Finally, the test script. It accepts one option, namely -v to enable verbose output.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
set -eu
VERBOSE=false
script_name=$(basename $0)

usage () {
    print "\n    Usage: $script_name SRC_PATH DESTINATION_PATH\n" >&2
    exit ${1:=1}
}
vrb () { $VERBOSE && print -P ${(%)@} || return 0; }

relpath_check () {
    [[ $# -ge 1 ]] && [[ $# -le 2 ]] || return 1
    target=${${2:-$1}}
    prefix=${${${2:+$1}:-$PWD}}
    result=$(relpath $prefix $target)
    # Compare with python's os.path.relpath function
    py_result=$(python -c "import os.path; print os.path.relpath('$target', '$prefix')")
    col='%F{green}'
    if [[ $result != $py_result ]] && col='%F{red}' || $VERBOSE; then
        print -P "${col}Source: '$prefix'\nDestination: '$target'%f"
        print -P "${col}relpath: ${(qq)result}%f"
        print -P "${col}python:  ${(qq)py_result}%f\n"
    fi
}

run_checks () {
    print "Running checks..."

    relpath_check '/    a   b/å/⮀*/!' '/    a   b/å/⮀/xäå/?'

    relpath_check '/'  '/A'
    relpath_check '/A'  '/'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/*/\\/E' '/'
    relpath_check '/' '/  & /  !/*/\\/E'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/*/\\/E' '/  & /  !/?/\\/E/F'
    relpath_check '/X/Y' '/  & /  !/C/\\/E/F'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/C' '/A'
    relpath_check '/A /  !/C' '/A /B'
    relpath_check '/Â/  !/C' '/Â/  !/C'
    relpath_check '/  & /B / C' '/  & /B / C/D'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/C' '/  & /  !/C/\\/Ê'
    relpath_check '/Å/  !/C' '/Å/  !/D'
    relpath_check '/.A /*B/C' '/.A /*B/\\/E'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/C' '/  & /D'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/C' '/  & /\\/E'
    relpath_check '/  & /  !/C' '/\\/E/F'

    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part1/part3
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part4/part5
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work/part6/part7
    relpath_check /home/part1       /work/part1/part2/part3/part4
    relpath_check /home             /work/part2/part3
    relpath_check /                 /work/part2/part3/part4
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part1/part2/part3/part4
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part1/part2/part3
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part1/part2
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home/part1
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /home
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work/part1
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work/part1/part2
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work/part1/part2/part3
    relpath_check /home/part1/part2 /work/part1/part2/part3/part4 
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part1/part3
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part4/part5
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work/part6/part7
    relpath_check home/part1       work/part1/part2/part3/part4
    relpath_check home             work/part2/part3
    relpath_check .                work/part2/part3
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part1/part2/part3/part4
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part1/part2/part3
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part1/part2
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home/part1
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 home
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 .
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work/part1
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work/part1/part2
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work/part1/part2/part3
    relpath_check home/part1/part2 work/part1/part2/part3/part4

    print "Done with checks."
}
if [[ $# -gt 0 ]] && [[ $1 = "-v" ]]; then
    VERBOSE=true
    shift
fi
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    run_checks
else
    VERBOSE=true
    relpath_check "$@"
fi

Answer 8

#!/bin/sh

# Return relative path from canonical absolute dir path $1 to canonical
# absolute dir path $2 ($1 and/or $2 may end with one or no "/").
# Does only need POSIX shell builtins (no external command)
relPath () {
    local common path up
    common=${1%/} path=${2%/}/
    while test "${path#"$common"/}" = "$path"; do
        common=${common%/*} up=../$up
    done
    path=$up${path#"$common"/}; path=${path%/}; printf %s "${path:-.}"
}

# Return relative path from dir $1 to dir $2 (Does not impose any
# restrictions on $1 and $2 but requires GNU Core Utility "readlink"
# HINT: busybox's "readlink" does not support option '-m', only '-f'
#       which requires that all but the last path component must exist)
relpath () { relPath "$(readlink -m "$1")" "$(readlink -m "$2")"; }

Above shell script was inspired by pini's (Thanks!). It triggers a bug in the syntax highlighting module of Stack Overflow (at least in my preview frame). So please ignore if highlighting is incorrect.

Some notes:

• Removed errors and improved code without significantly increasing code length and complexity
• Put functionality into functions for easiness of use
• Kept functions POSIX compatible so that they (should) work with all POSIX shells (tested with dash, bash, and zsh in Ubuntu Linux 12.04)
• Used local variables only to avoid clobbering global variables and polluting the global name space
• Both directory paths DO NOT need to exist (requirement for my application)
• Pathnames may contain spaces, special characters, control characters, backslashes, tabs, ', ", ?, *, [, ], etc.
• Core function "relPath" uses POSIX shell builtins only but requires canonical absolute directory paths as parameters
• Extended function "relpath" can handle arbitrary directory paths (also relative, non-canonical) but requires external GNU core utility "readlink"
• Avoided builtin "echo" and used builtin "printf" instead for two reasons:
  • Due to conflicting historical implementations of builtin "echo" it behaves differently in different shells -> POSIX recommends that printf is preferred over echo.
  • Builtin "echo" of some POSIX shells will interpret some backslash sequences and thus corrupt pathnames containing such sequences
• To avoid unnecessary conversions, pathnames are used as they are returned and expected by shell and OS utilities (e.g. cd, ln, ls, find, mkdir; unlike python's "os.path.relpath" which will interpret some backslash sequences)

• Except for the mentioned backslash sequences the last line of function "relPath" outputs pathnames compatible to python:

  path=$up${path#"$common"/}; path=${path%/}; printf %s "${path:-.}"
  

  Last line can be replaced (and simplified) by line

  printf %s "$up${path#"$common"/}"
  

  I prefer the latter because

  1. Filenames can be directly appended to dir paths obtained by relPath, e.g.:

     ln -s "$(relpath "<fromDir>" "<toDir>")<file>" "<fromDir>"
     

  2. Symbolic links in the same dir created with this method do not have the ugly "./" prepended to the filename.

• If you find an error please contact linuxball (at) gmail.com and I'll try to fix it.
• Added regression test suite (also POSIX shell compatible)

Code listing for regression tests (simply append it to the shell script):

############################################################################
# If called with 2 arguments assume they are dir paths and print rel. path #
############################################################################

test "$#" = 2 && {
    printf '%s\n' "Rel. path from '$1' to '$2' is '$(relpath "$1" "$2")'."
    exit 0
}

#######################################################
# If NOT called with 2 arguments run regression tests #
#######################################################

format="\t%-19s %-22s %-27s %-8s %-8s %-8s\n"
printf \
"\n\n*** Testing own and python's function with canonical absolute dirs\n\n"
printf "$format\n" \
    "From Directory" "To Directory" "Rel. Path" "relPath" "relpath" "python"
IFS=
while read -r p; do
    eval set -- $p
    case $1 in '#'*|'') continue;; esac # Skip comments and empty lines
    # q stores quoting character, use " if ' is used in path name
    q="'"; case $1$2 in *"'"*) q='"';; esac
    rPOk=passed rP=$(relPath "$1" "$2"); test "$rP" = "$3" || rPOk=$rP
    rpOk=passed rp=$(relpath "$1" "$2"); test "$rp" = "$3" || rpOk=$rp
    RPOk=passed
    RP=$(python -c "import os.path; print os.path.relpath($q$2$q, $q$1$q)")
    test "$RP" = "$3" || RPOk=$RP
    printf \
    "$format" "$q$1$q" "$q$2$q" "$q$3$q" "$q$rPOk$q" "$q$rpOk$q" "$q$RPOk$q"
done <<-"EOF"
    # From directory    To directory           Expected relative path

    '/'                 '/'                    '.'
    '/usr'              '/'                    '..'
    '/usr/'             '/'                    '..'
    '/'                 '/usr'                 'usr'
    '/'                 '/usr/'                'usr'
    '/usr'              '/usr'                 '.'
    '/usr/'             '/usr'                 '.'
    '/usr'              '/usr/'                '.'
    '/usr/'             '/usr/'                '.'
    '/u'                '/usr'                 '../usr'
    '/usr'              '/u'                   '../u'
    "/u'/dir"           "/u'/dir"              "."
    "/u'"               "/u'/dir"              "dir"
    "/u'/dir"           "/u'"                  ".."
    "/"                 "/u'/dir"              "u'/dir"
    "/u'/dir"           "/"                    "../.."
    "/u'"               "/u'"                  "."
    "/"                 "/u'"                  "u'"
    "/u'"               "/"                    ".."
    '/u"/dir'           '/u"/dir'              '.'
    '/u"'               '/u"/dir'              'dir'
    '/u"/dir'           '/u"'                  '..'
    '/'                 '/u"/dir'              'u"/dir'
    '/u"/dir'           '/'                    '../..'
    '/u"'               '/u"'                  '.'
    '/'                 '/u"'                  'u"'
    '/u"'               '/'                    '..'
    '/u /dir'           '/u /dir'              '.'
    '/u '               '/u /dir'              'dir'
    '/u /dir'           '/u '                  '..'
    '/'                 '/u /dir'              'u /dir'
    '/u /dir'           '/'                    '../..'
    '/u '               '/u '                  '.'
    '/'                 '/u '                  'u '
    '/u '               '/'                    '..'
    '/u\n/dir'          '/u\n/dir'             '.'
    '/u\n'              '/u\n/dir'             'dir'
    '/u\n/dir'          '/u\n'                 '..'
    '/'                 '/u\n/dir'             'u\n/dir'
    '/u\n/dir'          '/'                    '../..'
    '/u\n'              '/u\n'                 '.'
    '/'                 '/u\n'                 'u\n'
    '/u\n'              '/'                    '..'

    '/    a   b/å/⮀*/!' '/    a   b/å/⮀/xäå/?' '../../⮀/xäå/?'
    '/'                 '/A'                   'A'
    '/A'                '/'                    '..'
    '/  & /  !/*/\\/E'  '/'                    '../../../../..'
    '/'                 '/  & /  !/*/\\/E'     '  & /  !/*/\\/E'
    '/  & /  !/*/\\/E'  '/  & /  !/?/\\/E/F'   '../../../?/\\/E/F'
    '/X/Y'              '/  & /  !/C/\\/E/F'   '../../  & /  !/C/\\/E/F'
    '/  & /  !/C'       '/A'                   '../../../A'
    '/A /  !/C'         '/A /B'                '../../B'
    '/Â/  !/C'          '/Â/  !/C'             '.'
    '/  & /B / C'       '/  & /B / C/D'        'D'
    '/  & /  !/C'       '/  & /  !/C/\\/Ê'     '\\/Ê'
    '/Å/  !/C'          '/Å/  !/D'             '../D'
    '/.A /*B/C'         '/.A /*B/\\/E'         '../\\/E'
    '/  & /  !/C'       '/  & /D'              '../../D'
    '/  & /  !/C'       '/  & /\\/E'           '../../\\/E'
    '/  & /  !/C'       '/\\/E/F'              '../../../\\/E/F'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p1/p3'          '../p3'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p4/p5'          '../../p4/p5'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work/p6/p7'          '../../../work/p6/p7'
    '/home/p1'          '/work/p1/p2/p3/p4'    '../../work/p1/p2/p3/p4'
    '/home'             '/work/p2/p3'          '../work/p2/p3'
    '/'                 '/work/p2/p3/p4'       'work/p2/p3/p4'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p1/p2/p3/p4'    'p3/p4'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p1/p2/p3'       'p3'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p1/p2'          '.'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home/p1'             '..'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/home'                '../..'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/'                    '../../..'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work'                '../../../work'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work/p1'             '../../../work/p1'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work/p1/p2'          '../../../work/p1/p2'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work/p1/p2/p3'       '../../../work/p1/p2/p3'
    '/home/p1/p2'       '/work/p1/p2/p3/p4'    '../../../work/p1/p2/p3/p4'

    '/-'                '/-'                   '.'
    '/?'                '/?'                   '.'
    '/??'               '/??'                  '.'
    '/???'              '/???'                 '.'
    '/?*'               '/?*'                  '.'
    '/*'                '/*'                   '.'
    '/*'                '/**'                  '../**'
    '/*'                '/***'                 '../***'
    '/*.*'              '/*.**'                '../*.**'
    '/*.???'            '/*.??'                '../*.??'
    '/[]'               '/[]'                  '.'
    '/[a-z]*'           '/[0-9]*'              '../[0-9]*'
EOF


format="\t%-19s %-22s %-27s %-8s %-8s\n"
printf "\n\n*** Testing own and python's function with arbitrary dirs\n\n"
printf "$format\n" \
    "From Directory" "To Directory" "Rel. Path" "relpath" "python"
IFS=
while read -r p; do
    eval set -- $p
    case $1 in '#'*|'') continue;; esac # Skip comments and empty lines
    # q stores quoting character, use " if ' is used in path name
    q="'"; case $1$2 in *"'"*) q='"';; esac
    rpOk=passed rp=$(relpath "$1" "$2"); test "$rp" = "$3" || rpOk=$rp
    RPOk=passed
    RP=$(python -c "import os.path; print os.path.relpath($q$2$q, $q$1$q)")
    test "$RP" = "$3" || RPOk=$RP
    printf "$format" "$q$1$q" "$q$2$q" "$q$3$q" "$q$rpOk$q" "$q$RPOk$q"
done <<-"EOF"
    # From directory    To directory           Expected relative path

    'usr/p1/..//./p4'   'p3/../p1/p6/.././/p2' '../../p1/p2'
    './home/../../work' '..//././../dir///'    '../../dir'

    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p1/p3'           '../p3'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p4/p5'           '../../p4/p5'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work/p6/p7'           '../../../work/p6/p7'
    'home/p1'           'work/p1/p2/p3/p4'     '../../work/p1/p2/p3/p4'
    'home'              'work/p2/p3'           '../work/p2/p3'
    '.'                 'work/p2/p3'           'work/p2/p3'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p1/p2/p3/p4'     'p3/p4'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p1/p2/p3'        'p3'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p1/p2'           '.'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home/p1'              '..'
    'home/p1/p2'        'home'                 '../..'
    'home/p1/p2'        '.'                    '../../..'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work'                 '../../../work'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work/p1'              '../../../work/p1'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work/p1/p2'           '../../../work/p1/p2'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work/p1/p2/p3'        '../../../work/p1/p2/p3'
    'home/p1/p2'        'work/p1/p2/p3/p4'     '../../../work/p1/p2/p3/p4'
EOF

Answer 9

Not a lot of the answers here are practical for every day use. Since it is very difficult to do this properly in pure bash, I suggest the following, reliable solution (similar to one suggestion buried in a comment):

function relpath() { 
  python -c "import os,sys;print(os.path.relpath(*(sys.argv[1:])))" "$@";
}

Then, you can get the relative path based upon the current directory:

echo $(relpath somepath)

or you can specify that the path be relative to a given directory:

echo $(relpath somepath /etc)  # relative to /etc

The one disadvantage is this requires python, but:

• It works identically in any python >= 2.6
• It does not require that the files or directories exist.
• Filenames may contain a wider range of special characters. For example, many other solutions do not work if filenames contain spaces or other special characters.
• It is a one-line function that doesn't clutter scripts.

Note that solutions which include basename or dirname may not necessarily be better, as they require that coreutils be installed. If somebody has a pure bash solution that is reliable and simple (rather than a convoluted curiosity), I'd be surprised.

Answer 10

This script gives correct results only for inputs that are absolute paths or relative paths without . or ..:

#!/bin/bash

# usage: relpath from to

if [[ "$1" == "$2" ]]
then
    echo "."
    exit
fi

IFS="/"

current=($1)
absolute=($2)

abssize=${#absolute[@]}
cursize=${#current[@]}

while [[ ${absolute[level]} == ${current[level]} ]]
do
    (( level++ ))
    if (( level > abssize || level > cursize ))
    then
        break
    fi
done

for ((i = level; i < cursize; i++))
do
    if ((i > level))
    then
        newpath=$newpath"/"
    fi
    newpath=$newpath".."
done

for ((i = level; i < abssize; i++))
do
    if [[ -n $newpath ]]
    then
        newpath=$newpath"/"
    fi
    newpath=$newpath${absolute[i]}
done

echo "$newpath"