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18. Linking, Renaming, and Copying Files

Contents:
What's So Complicated About Copying Files?
What's Really in a Directory
Files with Two or More Names
More About Links
Creating and Removing Links
Stale Symbolic Links
Linking Directories
Showing the Actual Filenames for Symbolic Links
Renaming, Copying, or Comparing a Set of Files
There's More than One Way to Do It
Renaming Files with ren
Renaming a List of Files Interactively
One More Way to Do It
Relinking Multiple Symbolic Links
Copying Directory Trees with cp -r
Copying Directory Trees with (tar | tar)

18.1 What's So Complicated About Copying Files?

It hardly seems that there should be enough material to fill an entire chapter with information about linking, moving, and copying files. There are several things that make the topic more complex (and more interesting) than you might expect:

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