How to copy symlinks to target as normal folders

Question

i have a folder with symlinks:

marek@marek$ ls -al /usr/share/solr/
razem 36
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2010-11-30 08:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 358 root root 12288 2010-11-26 12:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2010-11-24 14:29 admin
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    14 2010-11-24 14:29 conf -> /etc/solr/conf

i want to copy it to ~/solrTest but i want to copy files from symlink as well

when i try to cp -r /usr/share/solr/ ~/solrTest

i will have symlink here:

marek@marek$ ls -al ~/solrTest
razem 36
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2010-11-30 08:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 358 root root 12288 2010-11-26 12:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2010-11-24 14:29 admin
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    14 2010-11-24 14:29 conf -> /etc/solr/conf

Answer 1

cp -Lr /usr/share/solr/ ~/solrTest

检查man页面是否有 unix 命令man cp

   -L, --dereference
          always follow symbolic links in SOURCE

Answer 2

从手册页：

'-L' ,'--dereference' - 从符号链接复制时遵循符号链接。使用此选项，cp 无法创建符号链接。例如，源树中的符号链接（到常规文件）将被复制到目标树中的常规文件中。

所以这是您应该尝试的选项。

Answer 3

cp -r -L /usr/share/solr/ ~/solrTest

从cp(1)手册页：

  -L, --dereference
        always follow symbolic links in SOURCE