Hi there! We are using sun solaris 2

[ganeshmb]

Hi there!
We are using sun solaris based version of unix. We use the command cp -R to copy directory. But the problem is that, if there is a softlink in the source directory it copies all the contents of the softlink to the target directory rather than the softlink itself. We need some help as to how to copy the softlink rather than the content of the softlink. Is any script available for recursive directory copy retaining all soft links in the same form?

Thanks in advance,
Ganesh

 

[olded]

Ganesh:

You can use tar or cpio to do your copy; They leave the soft links intact. This command:

cd /usr/eds; tar cf - .|(cd /usr/fred; tar xf - )


copies everything from /usr/eds directory to /usr/fred directory.


Here's the cpio version:

Regards,


Ed
cd /usr/eds; find . -depth -print|cpio -pd /usr/fred