Dereferencing links

Jim Kuzdrall gnhlug at intrel.com
Fri Apr 8 11:17:01 EDT 2005


Sorry, I should have experimented more.  cp does what I want done.

On Friday 08 April 2005 10:48 am, you 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 -)
>
>     But, it copied the files as links.  It is not too hard to write a
> script to do it, but all too often I discover something already
> exists.
>
> Jim Kuzdrall
>
>
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