In Perforce on Unix, how do you add a directory that is a symbolic link?

Question

I have created a symbolic link directory in Unix and I would like to add it to perforce.

(this question relates to symlinks on Unix. Windows symbolic links can have very

Answer 1

Add the symbolic link from the shell using the -t option to set the symlink type.

p4 add -t symlink dir2

Answer 2

Perforce is able to detect symlinks itself and no special options need to be added in the command. Just regular command like following suffices the need

p4 add <sym link filename>