install — Copy files and set attributes.

Author:

Prof. KalyanaKrishnan R and his team (IIT-Madras) done a wonderful
job to implement the MultiLingual Indian systems.
URL: http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/

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install — Copy files and set attributes.

Summary:

‘install’ will copy single/multiple source(s) to destination, sets
permission modes & owner/group and take backup of existing files. It
is very useful for writing the install scripts.

Examples:

$ install myfile Dir1 — Copy myfile to Dir1 with same name.

$ install myfile test — Copy myfile to test.

$ install -b myfile test — Copy myfile to test. If test is already
                   
       exists, then take a backup (test~).

$ install -b -S.bak myfile test — Same as above. But backup file will
                   
             created with .bak
suffix (test.bak).

$ install –backup=t myfile test — Take numbered backups (test.~1~).

$ install -p myfile test — Preserve the access and modification time,

                           while copying the file.

$ install -m 444 myfile test — Copy myfile with specified permission
                   
           mode. Default is 755.

$ install -g newgrp myfile test — Copy myfile and set GID is newgrp.

$ install -s mybin test.bin — Strip the symbol tables from installed

                              binary executables.

Read: man install

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