On 6/23/2010 11:58 AM, ann kok wrote:
Hi all
There are some soft/hard link. symoblic link files/folder under the top folder
How to copy all files under this top folder?
Thank you
I usually use rsync even for local copies, but cp -a will work too. I like to cd into the source fold and use '.' as the source name so I don't have to remember the rules about whether a new directory is created under the target or not. I don't think you can make the hard linked files become additional hard links to the same instance without saying to link everything, though. If you use rsync, you have to add -H to hardlink the files together that are hardlinks in the source. This is an inefficient operation and not automatically bundled in the '-a' option like most of the other attribute-preserving options.