cp ignore symlink and copy the actual file
This can be very tricky, say you are doing development on a file that is symlinked. Doing a "cp dev.file dev.file-bk" won't do what you expect, it just links back to the same file so you haven't copied or backed anything up.
You need the "-H" switch to copy the actual file that is referenced by the symlink:
cp -H dev.file dev.file-bk
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