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Date:      09 Aug 2002 15:18:45 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tar not following links now?
Message-ID:  <1028872126.3108.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>  <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:05, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> The "new" behavior is the correct behavior. I'm not sure when or why
> things were broken in your 4.6-PRERELEASE example. The option you want
> is the '-h' option.

But that dereferences _all_ symlinks, not just ones on the command line.

I guess I really want -H (like du has).

I don't understand why it changed though.

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