On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real > directory. Is there any easy way to do it? > > Let me explain with an example (that you can try): > > mkdir d1 > touch d1/{a,b,c} > ln -s c d1/d > ln -s d1 d2 > > I want that the result tar file looks like this: > > tar -tvzf d2.tgz > drwxrwx--x tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/ > -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/a > -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/b > -rw-rw---- tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/c > lrwxrwxrwx tong/tong 0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/d -> c > > Any easy way to do it?
add -h to the tar parameters. It dereferences the symbolic lyinks. However, then you won't get the d2/d -> c reference. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org