copying directories

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Oct 6 15:53:10 UTC 2018



On Oct 6, 2018, at 10:46, Mark Brethen wrote:

> When using copy on a directory I noticed that any links inside are copied instead of the linked file and so I end up with dead links after install. Is it acceptable to use System “cp …” during destroot, which does follow the link, in this case?

Sure, do what works. However, as far as I can tell, if your directory contains synlinks, cp will also just copy the links; it will not resolve them. 



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