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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Unexpected behaviour when creating a tarball with -h: symlinks are replaced by hardlinks |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:59:20 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
On 8/12/20 2:52 PM, bug|gnutar@nanl.de wrote:
However what I'm experiencing is - while -h indeed does not preserve the symlinks - it replaces them with hard links instead of actually de-referencing them and including the original file.
It sounds like you want to use tar's --hard-dereference option too.
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