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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index b27362778..cc806d52c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8257,9 +8257,11 @@ $ mkdir c; : > a; ln -s a b; cp -aH a b c; ls -i1 c @noindent Note the inputs: @file{b} is a symlink to regular file @file{a}, yet the files in destination directory, @file{c/}, are hard-linked. -Since @option{-a} implies @option{--preserve=links}, and since @option{-H} -tells @command{cp} to dereference command line arguments, it sees two files -with the same inode number, and preserves the perceived hard link. +Since @option{-a} implies @option{--no-dereference} it would copy the symlink, +but the later @option{-H} tells @command{cp} to dereference the command line +arguments where it then sees two files with the same inode number. +Then the @option{--preserve=links} option also implied by @option{-a} +will preserve the perceived hard link. Here is a similar example that exercises @command{cp}'s @option{-L} option: @smallexample |