also sprach Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> [2005.03.23.1333 +0100]:
> What is the point of this utility? Does it differ in any functional
> manner from cp -sr?
Sure. For instance, to create a symlink farm, e.g.:
$ tar xjf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11.tar.bz2
$ mkdir suspend2-2.6.11
$ cd !$
$ lndir ../kernel-source-2.6.11
This creates a hierarchy in which directories are directories and
files are symlinks.
With `cp -sr`, this is not possible:
$ cp -sr ../kernel-source-2.6.11 .
cp: `./Makefile': can make relative symbolic links only in current directory
Maybe I am doing something wrong. However, lndir is really useful
and I have not found an alternative.
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