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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">'cp -L' will copy the target rather than the link itself. <br>
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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. <br>
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Ah... my files are all stored on a FreeBSD machine, whose default behavior is just to copy the link.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Okay, I tried that but I keep getting no such file or directory.<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[14:31:55] /media/mythbox/recording-links > ls -l | grep -i amtrak</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">lrwxrwxrwx 1 bobby bobby 35 2009-04-08 03:00 The Colbert Report- Amtrak Nailed Em segment-2009.02.03.mpg -> /media/myth/1042_20090203093000.mpg</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[14:32:01] /media/mythbox/recording-links > cp -vL The\ Colbert\ Report-\ Amtrak\ Nailed\ Em\ segment-2009.02.03.mpg /media/stuff/</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">cp: cannot stat `The Colbert Report- Amtrak Nailed Em segment-2009.02.03.mpg': No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[14:32:10] /media/mythbox/recording-links ></span><br>
<br>Even without -L it does the same thing.<br><br><br>Thanks<br>Bob<br>