From cc04f61e145eae22808694e4c99887262109e7e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: levasseur <geoffray.levasseur@obs-mip.fr>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:00:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] backupdist: added support for symbolic links

---
 lib/filefct.sh | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/filefct.sh b/lib/filefct.sh
index 3df9b70..effefb8 100644
--- a/lib/filefct.sh
+++ b/lib/filefct.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ backupdist()
 
     for file in $@; do
         local tmstmp=$(stdtime)
-        if [[ -f ${file} ]]; then
+        if [[ - L ${file} ]]; then
+            # With symbolik links we call again backupdist to treat target
+            backupdist $(readlink -f ${file})
+        elif [[ -f ${file} ]]; then
             prnt I "Création d'une sauvegarde de ${file} du $tmstmp..."
             cp -av $file ${file}.dist.${tmstmp}
             if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
@@ -80,12 +83,12 @@ installfile()
         fi
     done
     
-    # Empty for just to obtain the target which is the last element of the list
+    # Empty to just obtain the target which is the last element of the list
     for i in $filelist; do
         :
     done
     if [[ ! $i == /* ]]; then
-        prnt E "installfile(): Target must be on the root filesystem and fuul path must be provided."
+        prnt E "installfile(): Target must be on the root filesystem and full path must be provided."
         die 13
     fi
     if [[ -d $(dirname $i) ]]; then