diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index e16c9bb2e..81601273e 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -2844,58 +2844,6 @@ void redisSetProcTitle(char *title) {
 #endif
 }
 
-/* Given the filename, return the absolute path as an SDS string, or NULL
- * if it fails for some reason. Note that "filename" may be an absolute path
- * already, this will be detected and handled correctly.
- *
- * The function does not try to normalize everything, but only the obvious
- * case of one or more "../" appearning at the start of "filename"
- * relative path. */
-sds getAbsolutePath(char *filename) {
-    char cwd[1024];
-    sds abspath;
-    sds relpath = sdsnew(filename);
-
-    relpath = sdstrim(relpath," \r\n\t");
-    if (relpath[0] == '/') return relpath; /* Path is already absolute. */
-
-    /* If path is relative, join cwd and relative path. */
-    if (getcwd(cwd,sizeof(cwd)) == NULL) {
-        sdsfree(relpath);
-        return NULL;
-    }
-    abspath = sdsnew(cwd);
-    if (sdslen(abspath) && abspath[sdslen(abspath)-1] != '/')
-        abspath = sdscat(abspath,"/");
-
-    /* At this point we have the current path always ending with "/", and
-     * the trimmed relative path. Try to normalize the obvious case of
-     * trailing ../ elements at the start of the path.
-     *
-     * For every "../" we find in the filename, we remove it and also remove
-     * the last element of the cwd, unless the current cwd is "/". */
-    while (sdslen(relpath) >= 3 &&
-           relpath[0] == '.' && relpath[1] == '.' && relpath[2] == '/')
-    {
-        relpath = sdsrange(relpath,3,-1);
-        if (sdslen(abspath) > 1) {
-            char *p = abspath + sdslen(abspath)-2;
-            int trimlen = 1;
-
-            while(*p != '/') {
-                p--;
-                trimlen++;
-            }
-            abspath = sdsrange(abspath,0,-(trimlen+1));
-        }
-    }
-
-    /* Finally glue the two parts together. */
-    abspath = sdscatsds(abspath,relpath);
-    sdsfree(relpath);
-    return abspath;
-}
-
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     struct timeval tv;
 
diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index 24f936b66..4b77e9fef 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -405,6 +405,58 @@ void getRandomHexChars(char *p, unsigned int len) {
     fclose(fp);
 }
 
+/* Given the filename, return the absolute path as an SDS string, or NULL
+ * if it fails for some reason. Note that "filename" may be an absolute path
+ * already, this will be detected and handled correctly.
+ *
+ * The function does not try to normalize everything, but only the obvious
+ * case of one or more "../" appearning at the start of "filename"
+ * relative path. */
+sds getAbsolutePath(char *filename) {
+    char cwd[1024];
+    sds abspath;
+    sds relpath = sdsnew(filename);
+
+    relpath = sdstrim(relpath," \r\n\t");
+    if (relpath[0] == '/') return relpath; /* Path is already absolute. */
+
+    /* If path is relative, join cwd and relative path. */
+    if (getcwd(cwd,sizeof(cwd)) == NULL) {
+        sdsfree(relpath);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    abspath = sdsnew(cwd);
+    if (sdslen(abspath) && abspath[sdslen(abspath)-1] != '/')
+        abspath = sdscat(abspath,"/");
+
+    /* At this point we have the current path always ending with "/", and
+     * the trimmed relative path. Try to normalize the obvious case of
+     * trailing ../ elements at the start of the path.
+     *
+     * For every "../" we find in the filename, we remove it and also remove
+     * the last element of the cwd, unless the current cwd is "/". */
+    while (sdslen(relpath) >= 3 &&
+           relpath[0] == '.' && relpath[1] == '.' && relpath[2] == '/')
+    {
+        relpath = sdsrange(relpath,3,-1);
+        if (sdslen(abspath) > 1) {
+            char *p = abspath + sdslen(abspath)-2;
+            int trimlen = 1;
+
+            while(*p != '/') {
+                p--;
+                trimlen++;
+            }
+            abspath = sdsrange(abspath,0,-(trimlen+1));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* Finally glue the two parts together. */
+    abspath = sdscatsds(abspath,relpath);
+    sdsfree(relpath);
+    return abspath;
+}
+
 #ifdef UTIL_TEST_MAIN
 #include <assert.h>
 
diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index 48425245a..8e9b0281d 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 #ifndef __REDIS_UTIL_H
 #define __REDIS_UTIL_H
 
+#include "sds.h"
+
 int stringmatchlen(const char *p, int plen, const char *s, int slen, int nocase);
 int stringmatch(const char *p, const char *s, int nocase);
 long long memtoll(const char *p, int *err);
@@ -37,5 +39,6 @@ int ll2string(char *s, size_t len, long long value);
 int string2ll(const char *s, size_t slen, long long *value);
 int string2l(const char *s, size_t slen, long *value);
 int d2string(char *buf, size_t len, double value);
+sds getAbsolutePath(char *filename);
 
 #endif