scp and symlinks

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:05:54AM +0000, Jorge Almeida took 15 lines to write:
> Hi,
> 
> I just found out that scp resolves symlinks and the man page doesn't
> mention it.
> I would like to copy symlinks as symlinks. Does anyone know of a
> workaround or undocumented feature?

A workaround is to use rsync:

rsync -r -e ssh path user at host:/path
rsync -r -e ssh user at host:/path path

-r tells rsync to recurse into directovies. -e ssh specifies the remote 
shell (ssh in this case) for rsync to use.

Kurt
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