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Old 05-27-2011
Unlink and copy actual file
Hello,
I have a set of directories, which has inside them, symbolic links to some files. What i would like to do is to covert the links into actual files, i.e. remove the link and copy the actual file here...

I tried to see unlink command but i think all it does is delete the link, is there anything that would transform the link to the actual copy ?

Thanks in advance
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Old 05-27-2011
Code:
 find /home/user/c_test/ -type l |while read link; do
> b=`basename $link`
> d=`dirname $link`
> cp $link $d/temp
> rm $link
> mv $d/temp $link

This worked for me, I was trying to copy the file in temp name (which will copy the content), then remove the link and copy the temp back in the link name.
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prasbala
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Old 05-27-2011
Thanks Kumaran, for the timely reply, it worked perfectly. exactly what i wanted to do
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