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diff --git a/lib/ansiblelint/file_utils.py b/lib/ansiblelint/file_utils.py
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+"""Utility functions related to file operations."""
+import os
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+
+def normpath(path) -> str:
+    """
+    Normalize a path in order to provide a more consistent output.
+
+    Currently it generates a relative path but in the future we may want to
+    make this user configurable.
+    """
+    # convertion to string in order to allow receiving non string objects
+    return os.path.relpath(str(path))
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def cwd(path):
+    """Context manager for temporary changing current working directory."""
+    old_pwd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(path)
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(old_pwd)