How do you find the symbolic links to files.

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Wed Nov 28 09:09:51 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov27.155015.24837 at specialix.co.uk> jonb at specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
  [ on symbolic links ]
> I would hope that tar would copy the contents of the file.

tar must not do this by default. ``These files now take up seventeen
times as much space, because we moved them from another disk via tar.''
Ungood.

---Dan



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