this is concerning fileutils 4.1 as found in the debian unstable
distribution.

problem: cp

cp -r dereferences symbolic links. (-d should do this).

mkdir temp/test
ln -s ~/.bashrc temp/test/blah
cp -r temp/ new

new/test contains a symbolic link to .bashrc
which is not what it sohuld contain.

db

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