rsync - Jun 2013 - rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

Hello rsync people

I thought I knew how to use rsync, but I can't work out how to use it to 
do the equivalent of

     cp -al dir1 dir2

where dir1 and dir2 are both local and on the same disk.

In other words I want to make dir2 a copy of dir1, with every file 
hard-linked to its counterpart in dir1.

Why not just use cp?  Because I want to be able to do it as a user who 
has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

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rsync -vai --lin-dest=/path/to/source/ /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/
Note that if you try it with relative paths the link-dest will be
relative to the source not .

On 06/18/13 09:39, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello rsync people
> 
> I thought I knew how to use rsync, but I can't work out how to use
> it to do the equivalent of
> 
> cp -al dir1 dir2
> 
> where dir1 and dir2 are both local and on the same disk.
> 
> In other words I want to make dir2 a copy of dir1, with every file 
> hard-linked to its counterpart in dir1.
> 
> Why not just use cp?  Because I want to be able to do it as a user
> who has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chris
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