Robert Hull wrote:
> On Friday 12 Jan 2007 19:40, noi <noi@siam.com> wrote in alt.os.linux:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:16:43 -0800, davida wrote this:
>>
>>> What I want to do is copy files from one folder to another but not
>>> create the destination files and folders without creating a symbolic
>>> link to them.
>>>
>>> The reason why is that we want to create a test site without going
>>> back to the live links.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> I've tried cp --copy-contents but that still keeps the symbolic links
>>> intact.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>> Wouldn't that be
>>
>> $ cp -d /folder /foldercopy
>
> That would be the opposite of what the OP appears to want to do.
>
> IIUC the OP wants all symlinks to be created as real files so (s)he
> *does* want to dereference the links. The command would be either
>
> cp -L /source /destination
>
> or
>
> cp --dereference /source /destination
>
> depending on how much you want to type.

As he has subdirectories, he would want to add -r option

cp -Lr /source /destination


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