What is a symbolic link (symlink)?

I want to copy cp in terminal a symbolic relative link into another directory, and I would like the copy to keep relatively pointing to the original target ...

Use readlink /path/to/link to get the real file. cp `readlink /path/to/my/link` /foo/destination equals cp $(readlink /path/to/my/link) /foo/destination

You need to dereference the links: cp -L -R files/* location/. -L is used to dereference or --dereference.

The readlink command gives you the name of the file that the symlink is pointing to. The cp command then performs the copy, but removes the ...

What you need is N/a(=DIR/a), and N/b->../N/a; so just copy without dereferencing, using cp -P option. I believe this is also the default for cp ...

One quick solution is to: $ mkdir dest_dir $ cp symlink_dir/* dest_dir/ the drawback is that you have to create the destination directory first.

Use cp -P (capital P) to never traverse any symbolic link and copy the symbolic link instead. This can be combined with other options such as -R to copy a ...

-H If a command line argument specifies a symbolic link, then copy the file it points to rather than the symbolic link itself. However, copy ( ...

To copy symbolic links as symbolic links rather than copying the files that they point to, pass the -P or --no-dereference option to the cp command.

我想複製某個資料夾到別的位置但該資料夾內有symbolic link 請問怎麼下指令或是其他建議作法可以不要複製到link，而是複製link指到的檔案--