Dereferencing links

[Derek Martin]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:48:50AM -0400, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
>     Is there a command line function to collapse a group of symbolic 
> links, replacing them with the files they reference?
> 
>     I tried: (cd /dir1 ; tar cf - .) | (cd /dir2 ; tar xf -)

You need the -h option to tar.  See the man page... 

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