On 9/6/07, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > Lets say I have two directories, /home/p1 and home/p2 > > There is a file /home/p1/file > and then one /home/p2/lnfile -> /home/p1/file > > (in other words I did ln -s /home/p1/file /home/p2/lnfile) > > if I cd /home and do a > > tar -zcvf tar.tz p1 p2 > or > scp -r p1 p2 10.0.0.20: > > then lnfile is no longer a symbolic link of file, but rather a duplicate. > Is there anyway with tar and scp to preserver the link, symbolic or hard? Not sure about tar but cpio should. Look at the -l --link option. This is supposed to link files instead of copying them, when possible. I have not tried it out. You will also have to look at all the options tar uses to see if any would work. Maybe if you tar /home and exclude all directories except p1 & p2, this might also work. ne... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest Now accepting personal mail for GMail invites.
