linux 'install' command

jhwilliams · 07-09-2009, 07:24 PM

I'm missing the point of this command. Is it just something left over from the bad old days of UNIX when, for example, tar really did make tape archives?

Seems like this utility's provisions are already covered by cp/rsync, chmod/chown/chgrp, just not in one place, I suppose.

John VV · 07-09-2009, 07:50 PM

are you talking about this string
./configure --options
make
make install
make clean
make distclean
make sane
make all ...

knudfl · 07-10-2009, 05:42 AM

/usr/bin/install
" install - copy files and set attributes "

Ref. 'man install'

It just sits there, never observed anybody use it.
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colucix · 07-10-2009, 07:22 AM

Actually almost all the Makefile of GNU and non-GNU software use install to perform the install target. Take a look at them and search a line as

Code:

INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c

nowonmai · 07-10-2009, 07:56 AM

I use it all the time in the creation of RPMs from pre-built binaries.