Copy directory structure and symlink files (alternative to `cp -as`) I'm looking for how to recursively copy a directory structure and then fill the copy with symlinks to the corresponding files from the source directory. This has a simple solution in Linux in the form of cp -as, but cp seems to lack the s option on macOS Mojave.
The underlying goal is to automate the process of making applications that do not reside in /Applications show up in Launchpad.
What would be an elegant, preferrably future proof, alternative to this on macOS?
From doing brew search cp I get the impression that Homebrew does not have an alternative version of cp.

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Additional information
I'm currently running this regularly, but I want to improve it by making it recursive:
ln -s /&lt;Source app directory&gt;/*.app /Applications

It also has to preserve the directory structure because:

Subdirectories are used to manage sets of applications that are to be excluded from backup, without having to manually change Time Machine settings every time I add a new application. For instance, games are large and do not need to be backed up. Same goes for versions of Xcode.

A mere symlink to a subdirectory does not include its linked target's applications in Launchpad.

A symlinked directory would prevent creating a real directory with the same name. That prevents the source and destination directories from being organised identically.
The GNU version of cp is part of coreutils

brew install coreutils


It gets installed as gcp to avoid conflicts with the BSD version of cp (which behaves differently for some arguments).