recursive cp that preserves symbolic links

[keak]

Hi there,

I am fairly new to Unix and I can't seem to find an answer online for this.

Is there a way to do a cp -Rd on a unix?
Basically, I need to copy over a folder that contains regular files/folders and also symbolic links in it.

I need to preserve the symbolic links in the target folder, but it looks like the -R option specified in linux makes it follow all links .... is there a way around this ?

Thanks!

 

[Tack24]

This place is pretty dead. Why don't you try signing up for FreeBsd's new forums and asking there. If I knew the answer, I would help.

http://forums.freebsd.org/

 

[KenCunningham]

You could tar up the folder and possibly use the -h option to follow the symbolic links and include them in the tarball.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[BatmanHFT]

I used to visit bsdforums.org back in the day quite a bit but the site seems to be down at the moment... They always had a really good support base but maybe forums.freebsd.org are taking over?

 

[samariation]

man cpio.