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Re: 'cp -lL' behaviour conflicts with documentation
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: 'cp -lL' behaviour conflicts with documentation |
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:21:09 -0700 |
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> Is it worth it to make cp manually follow a sequence of symlinks
> when given both -L and --link?
That would certainly be a nice capability.
If it is not worth it could that case be made an invalid case? That
way there is no doubt. Because I agree that I would not have expected
a hard link to a symlink when using -L,--dereference.
Bob