copy a directory link with -Rs

[sde]

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?

[sde]

part 2: .. so when i do a link directory to the directory, .. the directory is a link, but when i do a ls -la * inside one of those linked directories, none of them is links.

i guess that is because i'm already inside the linked directory.

so what way would be 'proper' ? lol .. i need to put more thought into this.

[redhead]

One thing comes to mind.. cp -a or perhaps cp -rl or cp -rs

[teknomage1]

'cp -rH'