Variable: dired-copy-dereference

dired-copy-dereference is a customizable variable defined in dired.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them.

This is similar to the "-L" option for the "cp" shell command.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 28.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil
  "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them.
This is similar to the \"-L\" option for the \"cp\" shell command."
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'dired)