copy both soft link and its linked file

okeyla · 02-13-2005, 09:31 PM

As title , if i wanna do it by bash script , how to do that?
For example ,
I want to copy /usr/lib/libfreetype.so to somewhere.
But it is a soft link , linking to /usr/lib/libfreetype.6.3.2
What i desire is using a script to copy both of them to the destination and
keeping its linking relation.

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P.S.
cp -L
cp -av
those two commands' parameter cannot satidfy me~

Best Regards,
Diego

foo_bar_foo · 02-13-2005, 09:53 PM

~/clean $ ls -l out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:42 out -> a.out

cp --no-dereference out ./test
cp a.out ./test

cd ./test
~/clean/test $ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 8334 2005-02-13 22:47 a.out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:47 out -> a.out

if it gets more complex with long paths that need changing then just rm the link copy te file
and rebuild the link with ln -s

okeyla · 02-13-2005, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by foo_bar_foo
~/clean $ ls -l out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:42 out -> a.out

cp --no-dereference out ./test
cp a.out ./test

cd ./test
~/clean/test $ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 8334 2005-02-13 22:47 a.out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:47 out -> a.out

if it gets more complex with long paths that need changing then just rm the link copy te file
and rebuild the link with ln -s

Thanks for sharing your idea.
But the point is...how do i do it by script program?

Just take your code as example:

Code:

usage:super_cp file destination
in the script , we could know if file link to other or not.
copy it / them  to the destination.

(Moreover , I find sometimes there's soft link to anohter soft link file!)

okeyla · 02-13-2005, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by foo_bar_foo
~/clean $ ls -l out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:42 out -> a.out

cp --no-dereference out ./test
cp a.out ./test

cd ./test
~/clean/test $ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 8334 2005-02-13 22:47 a.out
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 2005-02-13 22:47 out -> a.out

if it gets more complex with long paths that need changing then just rm the link copy te file
and rebuild the link with ln -s

Thanks for sharing your idea.
But the point is...how do i do it by script program?

Just take your code as example:

Code:

usage:super_cp file destination
in the script , we could know if file link to other or not.
copy it / them  to the destination.

(Moreover , I find sometimes there's soft link to anohter soft link file!)