> to keep my i386 development system up to spec, I need to mirror the > respective dists/slink subdirectories. Obviously I can't flatten aut > the symlinks, or I end up with lots of duplicates from binary-all! > On the other hand I need flattening out to include the symlinks to > hamm. Bit of a dilemma there, any idea how to accomplish this ? Add -L (deref symlinks) to the ls options (flags_recursive, AFAICR). Roman