rsync - Mar 2014 - How would I make dir2 a copy of dir1 w/hardlinks for the files?

I have a dir "dir/"
with 2 dirs in it "a/" and "b/".

dir b/ has a file in it 'file'

dir a has a relative symlink to that file:

Ishtar:/tmp> ll dir
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 2 20 Mar 26 10:51 a/
drwxrwxr-x 2 17 Mar 26 10:49 b/
Ishtar:/tmp> ll dir/{a,b}
dir/a:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 9 Mar 26 10:51 symfile -> ../b/file

dir/b:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 0 Mar 26 10:49 file
---

What I want is to create a new dir, 'dir2/'  with
'file' being hardlink'ed between the two (since it's identical).

I am not seeing how one would do this in rsync?

I keep ending up with 'file' being a separate copy in dir2...

Can rsync do this?

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rsync not needed: cp -al dir1 dir2

On 03/26/2014 02:22 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> I have a dir "dir/" with 2 dirs in it "a/" and
"b/".
> 
> dir b/ has a file in it 'file'
> 
> dir a has a relative symlink to that file:
> 
> Ishtar:/tmp> ll dir total 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 20 Mar 26 10:51 a/ 
> drwxrwxr-x 2 17 Mar 26 10:49 b/ Ishtar:/tmp> ll dir/{a,b} dir/a: 
> total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 9 Mar 26 10:51 symfile -> ../b/file
> 
> dir/b: total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 0 Mar 26 10:49 file ---
> 
> What I want is to create a new dir, 'dir2/'  with 'file'
being
> hardlink'ed between the two (since it's identical). I am not seeing
> how one would do this in rsync?
> 
> I keep ending up with 'file' being a separate copy in dir2...
> 
> Can rsync do this?
> 
> 
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