[Klug-general] copying a symlink to other users

Mike Evans mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
Fri Nov 5 10:46:23 UTC 2010



On 05/11/10 10:05, Evan Ingram wrote:

>
> what gives? is it trying to cp the actual directory that the symlink
> points to?
>

Yup - unless you tell it not to.  Have a look at the man page for cp.  I 
suspect that the -d or -P command line flag might help.


> i guess i could modify the "copy to all users script" to a "create
> symlink for all users script"
>
That would work too.

Mike



More information about the Kent mailing list