[Libguestfs] Guestfish command - "copy-out" not working for symbolic links

[Nikolay Ivanets]

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  Mykola Ivanets

пт, 28 черв. 2019, 21:28 користувач Chintan Patel <
chintan.r.patel at outlook.com> пише:

> This no going to work.
> AS I told you I need something under guestfish command list not from
> guestfs commands.
>
> Thanks,
> Chintan
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Nikolay Ivanets <stenavin at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 10:58 AM
> *To:* Chintan Patel
> *Cc:* Chintan Patel; libguestfs at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Libguestfs] Guestfish command - "copy-out" not working
> for symbolic links
>
> Chintan,
>
> Use 'download' (http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_download)
>
> --
>   Mykola Ivanets
>
> пт, 28 черв. 2019, 18:55 користувач Chintan Patel <
> chintan.r.patel at outlook.com> пише:
>
> Hi Nikolay,
>
> We use guestfish, so I preferred to use commands supported by guestfish.
> I tried as below but "realpath" is not working after I have the target
> path from symlink.
> --> Check if the path has a symlink.
> is-symlink path
> Ex. - is-symlink "/etc/resolv.conf"   -> return true
>
> --> If it's true then get target link path
> readlink path
> ex. - readlink "/etc/resolv.conf"  --> return "../
> run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf"
>
> --> Which return's target path but it's not a full path, so needs to get
> full path to access the target file.
> Tried to use realpath as below using target path from above return but
> it's giving None
>
> ex. - realpath "../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf"  --> return None
>
>
> Can you tell me how can I get the real path as without the full canonicalized
> absolute path I can't do anything with that file.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chintan
> ------------------------------
> *From:* libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com <libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com> on
> behalf of Nikolay Ivanets <stenavin at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 2:00 AM
> *To:* Chintan Patel
> *Cc:* libguestfs at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Libguestfs] Guestfish command - "copy-out" not working
> for symbolic links
>
> If it is one time operation you can call 'realpath'
> (http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_realpath) first to
> resolve symlink.
>
> --
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>     Mykola Ivanets
>
> пт, 28 черв. 2019 о 11:11 Chintan Patel <Chintan.Patel at microsoft.com>
> пише:
> >
> > HI,
> >
> > I’m trying to use copu-out command to copy files from remote disk but
> it’s not working if the file is symbolic link.
> >
> > copy-out giving an error like below.
> > libguestfs: error: ‘/etc/resolv.conf’ is not a file or directory
> > This file is there but it's a symbolic link
> >
> > Do you have any other way to copy remote symbolic link files?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chintan
> >
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