On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:50, Paul Barclay wrote: > What is the flag the makes cp copy the file and not the symbolic link? > > I don't want a hard liked file I want to copy the symbolic link and have > a distinct file after the operation. Hi, try this: my dir to copy from: Thu Nov 06 11:07:39 kroll@bach:~> ls -l test total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kroll kroll 3 Nov 6 11:06 B -> bla -rw-rw-r-- 1 kroll kroll 41 Nov 6 11:07 bla my dir to copy to: Thu Nov 06 11:08:40 kroll@bach:~> ls -l test1/ total 0 now give the -L a try Thu Nov 06 11:08:46 kroll@bach:~> cp -L test/* test1/ tada, and now: Thu Nov 06 11:09:03 kroll@bach:~> ls -l test1/ total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 kroll kroll 41 Nov 6 11:09 B -rw-rw-r-- 1 kroll kroll 41 Nov 6 11:09 bla HTH Volker -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
