[mythtv-users] MythWeb filename to actual filename

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Apr 8 17:59:34 UTC 2009


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/08/2009 02:12 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> Bobby Gill wrote:
>>> I perhaps have missed it somewhere in this thread, so forgive my 
>>> noobness with symlinks, but how do I copy the recordings from the 
>>> symlink dir?
>> 'cp -L' will copy the target rather than the link itself. 
> And--though Raymond's answer is the best answer, as you should never 
> rely on defaults--on systems that use GNU coreutils, cp (with no 
> arguments) defaults to following symlinks.  Generally, -L is only 
> required when you put in certain arguments that would imply you do not 
> want to dereference symlinks. 
Ah... my files are all stored on a FreeBSD machine, whose default 
behavior is just to copy the link.


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