INSTALL(1L)INSTALL(1L)NAME
install - copy files and set their attributes
SYNOPSIS
install [options] [-s] [--strip] source dest
install [options] [-s] [--strip] source... directory
install [options] [-d,--directory] directory...
Options:
[-c] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] [--group=group] [--mode=mode]
[--owner=owner] [--help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
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 pro‐
grams into their destination directories. It can also be used to cre‐
ate 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 differ‐
ent 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 success‐
fully.
FSF GNU File Utilities INSTALL(1L)
