INSTALL

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This manual page documents the GNU version of install. install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible, their owner and group. Used similarly to cp; typically used in Makefiles to copy programs into their destination directories. It can also be used to create the destination directories and any leading directories, and to set the final directory's modes. It refuses to copy files onto themselves.  

OPTIONS

-c

Ignored; for compatibility with old Unix versions of install.

-d, --directory

Create each given directory and its leading directories, if they do not already exist. Set the owner, group and mode as given on the command line or to the defaults. Also gives any leading directories that are created those attributes. This is different from the SunOS 4.x install, which gives directories that it creates the default attributes.

-g, --group group

Set the group ownership of the installed file or directory to the group ID of group (default is process's current group). group may also be a numeric group ID.

-m, --mode mode

Set the permission mode for the installed file or directory to mode, which can be either an octal number, or a symbolic mode as in chmod, with 0 as the point of departure. The default mode is 0755.

-o, --owner owner

If run as root, set the ownership of the installed file to the user ID of owner (default is root). owner may also be a numeric user ID.

-s, --strip

Strip the symbol tables from installed programs.

--help

Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

--version

Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

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