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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# 
+# Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+# $Id$
+
+use strict;
+require File::Spec;
+
+my $source = shift @ARGV;
+my $target = shift @ARGV;
+my $result = File::Spec->abs2rel($source, $target);
+
+print "$result\n";