NAME

install — install binaries

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

install copies the given source files to destination. If destination is a directory then source is copied into destination with its original filename, otherwise if it already exists, it is removed.

The mode of destination is set to 755 unless -m mode is specified.

OPTIONS

-C

Ignored, for compatibility with other implementations.

-c

Copy the file, default behavior in all modern implementations.

-d

Create directories, including their parents.

-D

Create parent directories for destination.
Note that this option isn't portable, as FreeBSD and NetBSD implementation of install takes an argument like so: -D destdir

-g group

Sets group ownership.

-m mode

Sets alternative mode. The default mode is set to ‘0755/rwr-xr-x’.

-o owner

Sets user ownership.

-p

Preserve file access and modification times.

-t destination

Use destination as directory to copy each source into.

-T

Treat destination as a normal file. Which asserts a single source operand.

-v

print the name of each created file or directory

EXIT STATUS

The install utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

HISTORY

The install utility appeared in 4.2BSD.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>