Hi Pádraig,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 04:21:58PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > which would support this with --preserve=links.
> > > It's not a very requested feature though,
> > > but also not that invasive to implement.
> 
> There is another recent suggestion which may suffice for this.
> 
>   https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/115
> 
> I.e. to support the FreeBSD `install -l` option.
> Then install -la (or --link=absolute) would effectively
> propagate the symlinks to the destination,
> assuming we'd resolve symlinks in the source (like we already do).

Hmmm, that flag sounds useful.  Thanks!


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
> cheers,
> Padraig

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