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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy real file from a shortcut preserving the time stamps and directory tree Post 302781607 by balajesuri on Sunday 17th of March 2013 09:12:04 AM
Old 03-17-2013
Ah, the C:\blah\blah in your initial post gave an impression that it's windows. Anyway, there's a utility in linux - 'readlink' that does the trick.

Code:
# cat file_containing_soft_links_list.dat
gara@yn/short/name1
gara@yn/short/name2
gara@yn/short/name3
gara@yn/short/name4

Code:
#! /bin/bash

while read link
do
    target=$(readlink $link)
    processed=${target#*\\} # This will chop off "gara@yn/" from the beginning of target path
    processed=${processed%\\*} # This will chop off the file name from target path.
    cp --preserve=timestamps $target gara@yn/$processed # Copy with preserved timestamps
done < file_containing_soft_links_list.dat

 

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