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How to copy symlinks to target as normal folders

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 2026153511 views
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Problem

i have a folder with symlinks: i want to copy it to ~/solrTest but i want to copy files from symlink as well when i try to i will have symlink here:

Error Output

marek@marek$ ls -al /usr/share/solr/
razem 36
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2010-11-30 08:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 358 root root 12288 2010-11-26 12:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2010-11-24 14:29 admin
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    14 2010-11-24 14:29 conf -> /etc/solr/conf

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