Does anyone know what options to specify when creating a symlink to have

ln -sn /home/somedirectory directory

tar -cvhf directory.tar directory

I want the tar file to remember that directory is a symlink, and not have it actually go into /home/somedirectory and tar all the files?

driverdave,

tar -cvhf directory.tar directory

Just drop the 'h'. The 'h' means don't dump symlinks; dump the
files they point to.

tar -cvf directory.tar directory will only tar the symlink and not the
directory that the symlink points to.

Thanks. It was just a force of habit to add that h.