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Hi bhoot, you have a section on "cp", where you note plain "cp" copies the contents of the linked-to file. there also is an option "cp --archive" which copies

by froh 2y ago

Hi bhoot, you have a section on "cp", where you note plain "cp" copies the contents of the linked-to file. there also is an option "cp --archive" which copies the symlink as such. also someone else pointed out you may want to add man 7 inode man 7 symlink man 7 path_resolution

jbhoot 2y ago
There is also "cp -P". My purpose for the I/O sub-section was only to have a convenient logic of memorising how I/O operations work on soft links by default. Memorising techniques don't really gun for technical accuracy. However, I have struck it out because the logic is also blatantly inaccurate and has been rightly called out here.