Fix two issues with the edit-config script. (#14545)

Co-authored-by: Ilya Mashchenko <ilya@netdata.cloud>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/system/edit-config b/system/edit-config
index 754f9374a1..b705432d64 100755
--- a/system/edit-config
+++ b/system/edit-config
@@ -34,10 +34,20 @@ error() {
 }
 
 abspath() {
-  if [ -d "${1}" ]; then
+  if [ -d "${1}/" ]; then
     echo "$(cd "${1}" && /usr/bin/env PWD= pwd -P)/"
-  else
+  elif [ -f "${1}" ]; then
     echo "$(cd "$(dirname "${1}")" && /usr/bin/env PWD= pwd -P)/$(basename "${1}")"
+  elif echo "${1}" | grep -q '/'; then
+    if echo "${1}" | grep -q '^/'; then
+      mkdir -p "$(dirname "${1}")"
+      echo "$(cd "$(dirname "${1}")" && /usr/bin/env PWD= pwd -P)/$(basename "${1}")"
+    else
+      mkdir -p "${script_dir}/$(dirname "${1}")"
+      echo "${script_dir}/${1}"
+    fi
+  else
+    echo "${script_dir}/${1}"
   fi
 }