Can TAR both record symbolic links and the files/directories they reference?

The Tar command has an -h flag to follow symbolic links instead of recording the symbolic links. Is it possible to have both the symbo开发者_如何学运维lic links and what they point to in the archive? Can this be done automatically in one run of the TAR command?

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Make sure both the symbolic link and the directory/file it points to are inside the tar content.

For example, assume you have a file work/mydir/myfile.txt and a symbolic link work/mylink which points to that file (with relative path):

work:

drwxrwxr-x. 2 ...... ...... 4096 May 16 11:54 mydir
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ...... ......   16 May 16 11:54 mylink -> mydir/myfile.txt

work/mydir:

-rw-rw-r--. 1 ...... ......    0 May 16 11:54 myfile.txt

When you archive the work directory, both the symbolic link and the file are put inside the tar archive:

$ tar cvf work.tar work/
work/
work/mylink
work/mydir/
work/mydir/myfile.txt

When that tar archive will be extracted, the file and the symbolic link will be created in the target directory.