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 `install': Copy files and set attributes
 ========================================
 
    `install' copies files while setting their permission modes and, if
 possible, their owner and group.  Synopses:
 
      install [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
      install [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
      install -d [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
 
    In the first of these, the SOURCE file is copied to the DEST target
 file.  In the second, each of the SOURCE files are copied to the
 destination DIRECTORY.  In the last, each DIRECTORY (and any missing
 parent directories) is created.
 
    `install' is similar to `cp', but allows you to control the
 attributes of destination files.  It is typically used in Makefiles to
 copy programs into their destination directories.  It refuses to copy
 files onto themselves.
 
    The program accepts the following options.  Also see  Common
 options.
 
 `-b'
 `--backup'
      Make a backup of each file that would otherwise be overwritten or
      removed.   Backup options.
 
 `-c'
      Ignored; for compatibility with old Unix versions of `install'.
 
 `-d'
 `--directory'
      Create each given directory and any missing parent directories,
      setting the owner, group and mode as given on the command line or
      to the defaults.  It also gives any parent directories it creates
      those attributes.  (This is different from the SunOS 4.x
      `install', which gives directories that it creates the default
      attributes.)
 
 `-g GROUP'
 `--group=GROUP'
      Set the group ownership of installed files or directories to
      GROUP. The default is the process's current group.  GROUP may be
      either a group name or a numeric group id.
 
 `-m MODE'
 `--mode=MODE'
      Set the permissions 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 ( File
      permissions.).  The default mode is 0755--read, write, and
      execute for the owner, and read and execute for group and other.
 
 `-o OWNER'
 `--owner=OWNER'
      If `install' has appropriate privileges (is run as root), set the
      ownership of installed files or directories to OWNER. The default
      is `root'.  OWNER may be either a user name or a numeric user ID.
 
 `-p'
 `--preserve-timestamps'
      Set the time of last access and the time of last modification of
      each installed file to match those of each corresponding original
      file.  When a file is installed without this option, its last
      access and last modification times are both set to the time of
      installation.  This option is useful if you want to use the last
      modification times of installed files to keep track of when they
      were last built as opposed to when they were last installed.
 
 `-s'
 `--strip'
      Strip the symbol tables from installed binary executables.
 
 `-S SUFFIX'
 `--suffix=SUFFIX'
      Append SUFFIX to each backup file made with `-b'.   Backup
      options.
 
 `-v'
 `--verbose'
      Print the name of each file before copying it.
 
 `-V METHOD'
 `--version-control=METHOD'
      Change the type of backups made with `-b'.  The METHOD argument
      can be `numbered' (or `t'), `existing' (or `nil'), or `never' (or
      `simple').   Backup options.
 

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