Thnaks, I fixed it by using a -H flag with cp. Paul On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:10, Volker Kroll wrote: > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ E-mail is an informal method of communication and may be subject to data corruption, interception and unauthorised amendment for which Digital Bridges Ltd will accept no liability. Therefore, it will normally be inappropriate to rely on information contained on e-mail without obtaining written confirmation. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ________________________________________________________________________ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
