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bigmac15 04-14-2013 06:13 PM
Explain the attributes "links" in cp --preserve=links
 
It is understood that cp --preserve=links means to preserve the attribute links. How would you know that the attribute "links" is preserved after the copy?

unSpawn 04-14-2013 07:06 PM
Because if you run a 'find . -type l|wc -l' in the source and target destination the number is the same?
Because 'stat -c "%F" /path/to/item' returns the text "symbolic link"?


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