I haven't found any postings on this in an internet search and the empirical behavior doesn't seem to match what's described in the man page. The system is running rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31.
I created a test directory and tried several rsync parameters (such as -a). After working through the error messages that were generated, the following did not generate errors. rsync -rLkHtUuv --log-file=abc_test.txt ~/a/b/ c >& abc_err.txt Within the source directory is a symlink that points to another file within the same directory. ~/a/b/test_link -> ~/a/b/linked_file The above rsync options correctly change the symlink to a file whose content is the same as the target file. So, these rsync options are operating as expected. Where I get behavior that doesn't seem to match documentation is when I try to keep symlinks as symlinks. rsync -rltUv --log-file=abc_test.txt ~/a/b/ c >& abc_err.txt In the copied directory, the symlink that was in the original directory has been omitted and the symlink has not been replaced by the target file. I get similar behavior with rsync -a. Since the target and symlink are in the same directory, my understanding from the man page is that rsync should copy the symlink as a symlink. Any suggestions for how to preserve symlinks that are within the directory structure being copied? Thanks.
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