How can I zip/compress a symlink?

You can store symlinks as symlinks (as opposed to a copy of the file/directory they point to) using the --symlinks parameter of the standard zip.

Assuming foo is a directory containing symlinks:

zip --symlinks -r foo.zip foo/

Rar equivalent:

rar a -ol foo.rar foo/

tar stores them as is by default.

tar czpvf foo.tgz foo/

Note that the symlink occupies almost no disk space by itself (just an inode). It’s just a kind of pointer in the filesystem, as you probably know.

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