In a temporary directory I tried to 'cp -a' over a symbolic link, and I got a 'Permission denied'. 'cp -af' works though.
Hard links will be copied as regular files. I never checked if Coreutils creates any hard links. They may decide one day to hard link 'md5sum' to 'sha1sum', since they share a lot of code. I'll add the -f to the Coreutils page. robert
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