How do I tar ball a directory hierarchy with soft links in Linux?
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How do I tar ball/compress a directory hierarchy with soft links in Linux?
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GNU tar normally includes symlinks in the tarball it generates. If you want it to include the file the symlink points to instead then pass it / when creating the tarball.
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