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

Kevin Korb wrote:
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> rsync not needed: cp -al dir1 dir2
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Right now, neither is 'cp' (as of V8.21 - V10 inclusive) --
"apparently" (?) in response to this
article: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/64493.html.

Right now, 'cp' tries to 'hardlink' to symlinks, which AFAIR
has never been an option -- any more than hardlinking to
directories.

I was trying to see if rsync was a viable alternative until the bug
is fixed, and had abilities cp used to (bug currently does not).

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The rsync equivalent to cp -al would be:
rsync -a --link-dest=/path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir1/ /path/to/dir2/

Note that I switched to absolute paths since rsync considers
- --link-dest relative paths to be relative to the target so the
relative example would be: rsync -a --link-dest=../dir1 dir1/ dir2/
which I think is stupid.

On 03/26/2014 05:21 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Kevin Korb wrote:
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>> rsync not needed: cp -al dir1 dir2
>> 
> Right now, neither is 'cp' (as of V8.21 - V10 inclusive) -- 
> "apparently" (?) in response to this article:
> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/64493.html.
> 
> Right now, 'cp' tries to 'hardlink' to symlinks, which
AFAIR has
> never been an option -- any more than hardlinking to directories.
> 
> I was trying to see if rsync was a viable alternative until the
> bug is fixed, and had abilities cp used to (bug currently does
> not).
> 
> 
> 
> 
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