title: How to copy contents from a directory and not symbolic link?
body: <p>on a directory <code>cp -rvf dir .</code> copies the symbolic links and not actual contents.
  src is copied to <code>module/hal/</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>.
  |-- comm
  |   `-- alchemist.c
  |-- module
  |   `-- hal
  |       `-- src
  |           `-- comm -&gt; ../comm
  `-- src
      `-- comm -&gt; ../comm
  </code></pre>