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.
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Les Mikesell
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