How to copy contents from a directory and not symbolic link? [closed]

on a directory cp -rvf dir . copies the symbolic links and not actual contents. src is copied to module/hal/

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|-- comm
|   `-- alchemist.c
|-- module
|   `-- hal
|       `-- src
|           `-- comm -> ../comm
`-- src
    `-- comm -> ../comm

From cp(1):

   -L, --dereference
          always follow symbolic links in SOURCE

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