There should be a way to make relative symlinks

[daleglass]

The symlinks being created point to the full path on disk. I'd like to be able to create relative symlinks, so that I can move the data around and back it up and have everything keep working.

[marehr]

Hiho I searched for the same thing, as you can see there is an entry in the man page about this:

rdfind/rdfind.1

Lines 158 to 160 in fa7752d

	The symlink creates absolute links. This might not be what you
	want. To create relative links instead, you may use the symlink (2)
	command, which is able to convert absolute links to relative links.

You can use https://github.com/brandt/symlinks#convert-absolute-symlink-to-relative for that purpose.

[pauldreik]

Sorry for the late reply. I made the links absolute, because making correct relative symlinks seems nontrivial, given that parts of the paths could be relative, different mount points, hardlinks etc. Maybe I am wrong? Perhaps one could consider an opportunistic approach, where a pure text based manipulation is done, and if the candidate resolves to the same inode, pick that candidate. Else bail out and make it absolute.

[pauldreik]

Here is an issue showing it is not trivial to make this correct: brandt/symlinks#3