On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:12:24PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Linux cp has a --link option that makes hard links instead of copies of > non-directories. The FreeBSD cp doesn't appear to have that option. > > Is there a way of achieving this?
Yes. Use find(1)/cpio(1) -- so, to create a 'link tree' of your entire home
directory under /tmp, you would do:
% cd ${HOME}
% find . -print | cpio -pvdl /tmp
That assumes that ${HOME} and /tmp are on the same device, which is
probably not true, but you get the general idea.
Cheers,
Matthew
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