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  1. how to compress a symbolic link?
  2. -bash-3.00$ ls -ail
  3. 1263583 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       18 Apr 18  2008 mainwebsite_html -> ../../var/www/html
  4.  
  5. -bash-3.00$ tar -cjvf archive.tar.bz2 mainwebsite_html
  6.  
  7. -bash-3.00$ ls -ail
  8. 7509101 -rw-r--r--  1 user1 user1  136 Feb 22 08:57 archive.tar.bz2
  9. 1263583 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       18 Apr 18  2008 mainwebsite_html -> ../../var/www/html
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  11. -h, --dereference
  12.           follow symlinks; archive and dump the files they point to
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