1.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)install.1 6.11 (Berkeley) 5/31/91 33.\" 34.Dd May 31, 1991 35.Dt INSTALL 1 36.Os BSD 4.2 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm install 39.Nd install binaries 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm install 42.Op Fl cs 43.Op Fl m Ar mode 44.Op Fl o Ar owner 45.Op Fl g Ar group 46.Ar file1 file2 47.Nm install 48.Op Fl cs 49.Op Fl m Ar mode 50.Op Fl o Ar owner 51.Op Fl g Ar group 52.Ar file1 53\&... 54.Ar fileN directory 55.Nm install 56.Fl d 57.Op Fl m Ar mode 58.Op Fl o Ar owner 59.Op Fl g Ar group 60.Ar directory 61\&... 62.Sh DESCRIPTION 63The file(s) are moved (or copied if the 64.Fl c 65option is specified) to the target file or directory. 66If the destination is a directory, then the 67.Ar file 68is moved into 69.Ar directory 70with its original filename. 71If the target file already exists, it is overwritten if permissions 72allow. 73.Pp 74.Bl -tag -width Ds 75.It Fl m 76Specify an alternate mode. 77The default mode is set to 755. 78The specified mode may be either an octal or symbolic value; see 79.Xr chmod 1 80for a description of possible mode values. 81.It Fl o 82Specify an owner. 83.It Fl g 84Specify a group. 85.It Fl s 86.Nm Install 87exec's the command 88.Xr strip 1 89to strip binaries so that install can be portable over a large 90number of systems and binary types. 91.It Fl d 92Create directories. 93Missing parent directories are created as required. 94.El 95.Pp 96.Nm Install 97refuses to move a file onto itself. 98.Pp 99Installing 100.Pa /dev/null 101creates an empty file. 102.Pp 103Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned. 104Otherwise, a value of 1 is returned. 105.Sh SEE ALSO 106.Xr chgrp 1 , 107.Xr chmod 1 , 108.Xr cp 1 , 109.Xr mv 1 , 110.Xr strip 1 , 111.Xr a.out 5 , 112.Xr chown 8 113.Sh HISTORY 114The 115.Nm install 116utility appeared in 117.Bx 4.2 . 118