In Mint 17 (Cinnamon), I'm using the file manager (I guess it's called Nemo?) to view some header files after building OpenSSL in the 'include' directory. Each of the header files in this directory has a sub-icon that looks like an arrow, I guess this means it's a symlink or soft link to a real file. I just want to copy/paste all of these header files into another directory, but when I do this I instead get copies of the link itself and not the target files.How can I copy/paste the actual physical files and not the links, from the links themselves?EDITHere is the result of ls -l:robert@mint-os ~/third-party-source/openssl/include/openssl $ ls -ltotal 1572lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 22 Jan 23 07:54 aes.h -> ../../crypto/aes/aes.hlrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 24 Jan 23 07:54 asn1.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1.hlrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 28 Jan 23 07:54 asn1_mac.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1_mac.hlrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 25 Jan 23 07:54 asn1t.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1t.hlrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 22 Jan 23 07:54 bio.h -> ../../crypto/bio/bio.hlrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 26 Jan 23 07:54 blowfish.h -> ../../crypto/bf/blowfish.h<snip>
In Mint 17, how do I copy/paste symlinked files?
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From the output, the links are all to ~/third-party-source/openssl/crypto. So either navigate there from the GUI, or with the command line cp, use --dereference:-L, --dereference      always follow symbolic links in SOURCELike so:cp -L ~/third-party-source/openssl/include/openssl/* /some/where/else