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'cp -lL' behaviour conflicts with documentation


From: Tim Waugh
Subject: 'cp -lL' behaviour conflicts with documentation
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:21:09 +0000
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coreutils-5.2.1:

$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cp -lL /lib/libc.so.6 /tmp/foo
$ ls -l /tmp/foo
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx  2 root root 13 Mar  8 10:59 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.4.so

The man page says that -L always dereferences symbolic links, but when
used in conjuction with -l (link files instead of copying) this is not
honoured.

(Originally RH bug #150951.)

Tim.
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