backing up symlinks
Duane Attaway
dattawaykclug at dattaway.org
Tue Nov 9 11:55:01 CST 2004
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Rob Becker wrote:
> I'm playing with optimizing the startup scripts on an old redhat box.
> In order to avoid completely monkeying things up, I would like to back
> up the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d directory prior to making changes. I've read the
> man pages on both cp and ln and I'm coming up short regarding backing up
> the symlinks in this directory. Is there a way to create symlinks with
> the same names that point to the same files as the original symlinks? I
> know I can do it manually, but I'd prefer to use the * wildcard to get
> it all done in one shot if possible. Does anyone have any ideas? Am I
> thinking about this the wrong way? Please enlighten me if I am missing
> an obvious solution.
> Thanks.
> Rob
I use:
cp -aR
Does that work?
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