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Old 02-11-2005, 11:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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copy a directory link with -Rs

i have a directory that i need to copy into symbolic links. the problem is that the copy doesn't work for directories.

example, here is the contents of my directory:
- index.php
- images/

of course there are more files, but this will do for now. i'm going to have to copy the contents of this directory often, and i need it to make the symbolic link to the images directory too.

cp -Rs /home/usr/myapp/* ./

that will only copy the symbolic link for all the files. the thing is that i want the directory images/ to be a symbolic link too.

instead, it creates a directory named images that is not a symbolic link, but all the files in the images directory are links.

maybe it doesn't matter that much, but i want to effectively do the same thing that: ln -s /home/usr/myapp/images would do.

any ideas?
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