Dereferencing links

[Steven W. Orr]

On Friday, Apr 8th 2005 at 10:48 -0400, quoth Jim Kuzdrall:

=>    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

Not what you're looking for, but this is the exact opposite:

find dir1 -print | cpio -pdvlum dir2

This will create hardlinks within a filesystem.

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