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linux copy symlink file

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cp -as SOURCE/ COPY

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There are at least 2 standard utilities to build a shadow directory tree of an existing tree, so no need to write code here.

First there's lndir(1) from the xutils-dev package. It uses symlinks to files. From the man page:

NAME
   lndir  -  create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another
             directory tree
SYNOPSIS
   lndir [ -silent ] [ -ignorelinks ] [ -withrevinfo ] fromdir [ todir ]
A perhaps better alternative is to simply use cp with the right options as the accepted answer suggests. I'll just give some more hopefully useful detail:

cp -al /src/dir /dest/dir    # hard-links to leaf-files
cp -as /src/dir /dest/dir    # symlinks to leaf-files
If you don't care about preserving all attributes (ownerships/permissions, times) replace the a option (equivalent to -dr --preserve=all) with r (recursive only):

cp -rl /src/dir /dest/dir    # hard-links to leaf-files
cp -rs /src/dir /dest/dir    # symlinks to leaf-files

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