How would I make dir2 a copy of dir1 w/hardlinks for the files?
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Wed Mar 26 12:25:00 MDT 2014
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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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