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recursive cp that preserves symbolic links

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keak

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Sep 12, 2005
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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!
 
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?
 
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?
 
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