Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real
> directory. Is there any easy way to do it?
> 
> Let me explain with an example (that you can try):
> 
>  mkdir d1
>  touch d1/{a,b,c}
>  ln -s c d1/d
>  ln -s d1 d2
> 
> I want that the result tar file looks like this:
> 
>  tar -tvzf d2.tgz
>  drwxrwx--x tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/
>  -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/a
>  -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/b
>  -rw-rw---- tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:37 d2/c
>  lrwxrwxrwx tong/tong         0 2009-05-01 09:38 d2/d -> c
> 
> Any easy way to do it? 

add -h to the tar parameters.  It dereferences the symbolic lyinks.
However, then you won't get the d2/d -> c reference.

Doug.