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revpath - generate a relative path that can be used to undo a change-directory
The revpath program prints out a relative path that is the ``reverse'' or
  ``inverse'' of path. Start with two directories top and
  bottom, with the latter below the former, and path is the
  location of bottom relative to top. The output of revpath
  is the location of top relative to bottom. The resulting path
  contains a trailing `/' character when the result is non-trivial. If
  path is equivalent to `.', the resulting output is empty. If
  path is invalid in some way (e.g., doesn't represent the path to a
  subdirectory) the output is also empty and no error messages are ever
  generated.
There are no diagnostics. Error conditions are silently ignored, and the exit
  status is always 0.
It isn't possible to reverse arbitrary relative paths. If any path element
  between the two end points of path is a symbolic link, the results will
  probably be incorrect.