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Re: cp -rfL and symlinks to directories


From: Martin Michlmayr
Subject: Re: cp -rfL and symlinks to directories
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:18:21 +0000
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* Jim Meyering <address@hidden> [2006-02-07 23:46]:
> This change from a few days ago:
>   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-02/msg00020.html>
> NEWS:
>   When `cp -RL' encounters the same directory more than once in the
>   hierarchy beneath a single command-line argument, it no longer confuses
>   them with hard-linked directories.
> makes it so the use of cp in your example no longer fails.

Thanks, that's great!
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Martin Michlmayr
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