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?
EDIT
Here is the result of ls -l
:
robert@mint-os ~/third-party-source/openssl/include/openssl $ ls -l
total 1572
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 22 Jan 23 07:54 aes.h -> ../../crypto/aes/aes.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 24 Jan 23 07:54 asn1.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 28 Jan 23 07:54 asn1_mac.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1_mac.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 25 Jan 23 07:54 asn1t.h -> ../../crypto/asn1/asn1t.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 22 Jan 23 07:54 bio.h -> ../../crypto/bio/bio.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robert robert 26 Jan 23 07:54 blowfish.h -> ../../crypto/bf/blowfish.h
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ls -lL
-L
, otherwise how would we distinguish between links and their target regular files?ls -l
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