Martin Str|mberg wrote: > Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files. > Thus if you had: > > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ms318 erisoft 3 Apr 11 11:07 kkk -> jjj > > in old and did "cp -r old new/" you would get > > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj > -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 kkk > Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as links? The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to do it that way.
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