install(1M) System Administration Commands install(1M)NAMEinstall - install commands
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/install -c dira [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group] [-o] [-s] file
/usr/sbin/install -f dirb [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group] [-o] [-s] file
/usr/sbin/install -n dirc [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group] [-o] [-s] file
/usr/sbin/install -d | -i [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group] [-o] [-s]
dirx...
/usr/sbin/install [-m mode] [-u user] [-g group] [-o] [-s] file
[dirx...]
DESCRIPTIONinstall is most commonly used in ``makefiles'' (see make(1S)) to
install a file in specific locations, or to create directories within a
file system. Each file is installed by copying it into the appropriate
directory.
install uses no special privileges to copy files from one place to
another. The implications of this are:
· You must have permission to read the files to be installed.
· You must have permission to copy into the destination directory.
· You must have permission to change the modes on the final copy of
the file if you want to use the -m option.
· You must be super-user if you want to specify the ownership of the
installed file with the -u or -g options. If you are not the
super-user, the installed file is owned by you, regardless of who
owns the original.
Note that if the ROOT environment variable is set, each of the default
directory paths are prefixed by its value (for example, $ROOT/bin and
so on).
install prints messages telling the user exactly what files it is
replacing or creating and where they are going.
If no options or directories (dirx ...) are given, install searches a
set of default directories ( /bin, /usr/bin, /etc, /lib, and /usr/lib,
in that order) for a file with the same name as file. When the first
occurrence is found, install issues a message saying that it is over‐
writing that file with file, and proceeds to do so. If the file is not
found, the program states this and exits.
If one or more directories (dirx ...) are specified after file, those
directories are searched before the default directories.
This version of install (/usr/sbin/install) is not compatible with the
install binaries in many versions of Unix other than Solaris. For a
higher degree of compatibility with other Unix versions, use
/usr/ucb/install, which is described in the install(1B) man page.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c dira Install file in the directory specified by dira, if
file does not yet exist. If it is found, install issues
a message saying that the file already exists, and
exits without overwriting it.
-f dirb Force file to be installed in given directory, even if
the file already exists. If the file being installed
does not already exist, the mode and owner of the new
file is set to 755 and bin , respectively. If the file
already exists, the mode and owner is that of the
already existing file.
-n dirc If file is not found in any of the searched directo‐
ries, it is put in the directory specified in dirc. The
mode and owner of the new file is set to 755 and bin,
respectively.
-d Create a directory. Missing parent directories are cre‐
ated as required as in mkdir -p. If the directory
already exists, the owner, group and mode is set to the
values given on the command line.
-i Ignore default directory list, searching only through
the given directories (dirx ...).
-m mode The mode of the new file is set to mode. Set to 0755 by
default.
-u user The owner of the new file is set to user. Only avail‐
able to the super-user. Set to bin by default.
-g group The group id of the new file is set to group. Only
available to the super-user. Set to bin by default.
-o If file is found, save the ``found'' file by copying it
to OLDfile in the directory in which it was found. This
option is useful when installing a frequently used file
such as /bin/sh or /lib/saf/ttymon, where the existing
file cannot be removed.
-s Suppress printing of messages other than error mes‐
sages.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of install when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOchgrp(1), chmod(1), chown(1), cp(1), install(1B), make(1S), mkdir(1),
attributes(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.10 3 Nov 2005 install(1M)
