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Replace symbolic links by the target files

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/303559/replace-symbolic-links-with-files

Code:

#!/usr/bin/bash

set -e
for link; do
    test -h "$link" || continue

    dir=$(dirname "$link")
    reltarget=$(readlink "$link")
    case $reltarget in
        /*) abstarget=$reltarget;;
        *)  abstarget=$dir/$reltarget;;
    esac

    rm -fv "$link"
    cp -afv "$abstarget" "$link" || {
        # on failure, restore the symlink
        rm -rfv "$link"
        ln -sfv "$reltarget" "$link"
    }
done

Usage:

find . -type l -exec /path_to/replace_symlinks.sh {} +