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35.Dd March 6, 2006
36.Dt INSTALL 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm install
40.Nd install binaries
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl bCcMpSsv
44.Op Fl B Ar suffix
45.Op Fl f Ar flags
46.Op Fl g Ar group
47.Op Fl m Ar mode
48.Op Fl o Ar owner
49.Ar file1 file2
50.Nm
51.Op Fl bCcMpSsv
52.Op Fl B Ar suffix
53.Op Fl f Ar flags
54.Op Fl g Ar group
55.Op Fl m Ar mode
56.Op Fl o Ar owner
57.Ar file1 ... fileN directory
58.Nm
59.Fl d
60.Op Fl v
61.Op Fl g Ar group
62.Op Fl m Ar mode
63.Op Fl o Ar owner
64.Ar directory ...
65.Sh DESCRIPTION
66The file(s) are copied
67to the target file or directory.
68If the destination is a directory, then the
69.Ar file
70is copied into
71.Ar directory
72with its original filename.
73If the target file already exists, it is
74either renamed to
75.Ar file Ns Pa .old
76if the
77.Fl b
78option is given
79or overwritten
80if permissions allow.
81An alternate backup suffix may be specified via the
82.Fl B
83option's argument.
84.Pp
85The options are as follows:
86.Bl -tag -width indent
87.It Fl b
88Back up any existing files before overwriting them by renaming
89them to
90.Ar file Ns Pa .old .
91See
92.Fl B
93for specifying a different backup suffix.
94.It Fl B Ar suffix
95Use
96.Ar suffix
97as the backup suffix if
98.Fl b
99is given.
100.It Fl C
101Copy the file.
102If the target file already exists and the files are the same,
103then do not change the modification time of the target.
104If the target's file flags and mode need not to be changed,
105the target's inode change time is also unchanged.
106.It Fl c
107Copy the file.
108This is actually the default.
109The
110.Fl c
111option is only included for backwards compatibility.
112.It Fl d
113Create directories.
114Missing parent directories are created as required.
115.It Fl f
116Specify the target's file flags; see
117.Xr chflags 1
118for a list of possible flags and their meanings.
119.It Fl g
120Specify a group.
121A numeric GID is allowed.
122.It Fl M
123Disable all use of
124.Xr mmap 2 .
125.It Fl m
126Specify an alternate mode.
127The default mode is set to rwxr-xr-x (0755).
128The specified mode may be either an octal or symbolic value; see
129.Xr chmod 1
130for a description of possible mode values.
131.It Fl o
132Specify an owner.
133A numeric UID is allowed.
134.It Fl p
135Preserve the access and modification times.
136Copy the file, as if the
137.Fl C
138(compare and copy) option is specified,
139except if the target file does not already exist or is different,
140then preserve the access and modification times of the source file.
141.It Fl S
142Safe copy.
143Normally,
144.Nm
145unlinks an existing target before installing the new file.
146With the
147.Fl S
148flag a temporary file is used and then renamed to be
149the target.
150The reason this is safer is that if the copy or
151rename fails, the existing target is left untouched.
152.It Fl s
153.Nm
154exec's the command
155.Xr strip 1
156to strip binaries so that
157.Nm
158can be portable over a large
159number of systems and binary types.
160See below for how
161.Nm
162can be instructed to use another program to strip binaries.
163.It Fl v
164Cause
165.Nm
166to be verbose,
167showing files as they are installed or backed up.
168.El
169.Pp
170By default,
171.Nm
172preserves all file flags, with the exception of the
173.Dq nodump
174flag.
175.Pp
176The
177.Nm
178utility attempts to prevent moving a file onto itself.
179.Pp
180Installing
181.Pa /dev/null
182creates an empty file.
183.Sh ENVIRONMENT
184The
185.Nm
186utility checks for the presence of the
187.Ev STRIPBIN
188environment variable and if present,
189uses the assigned value as the program to run if and when the
190.Fl s
191option has been specified.
192.Pp
193If the
194.Ev DONTSTRIP
195environment variable is present,
196.Nm
197will ignore any specification of the
198.Fl s
199option.
200This is mainly for use in debugging the
201.Fx
202Ports Collection.
203.Sh FILES
204.Bl -tag -width ".Pa INS@XXXX" -compact
205.It Pa INS@XXXX
206If either
207.Fl S
208option is specified, or the
209.Fl C
210or
211.Fl p
212option is used in conjunction with the
213.Fl s
214option, temporary files named
215.Pa INS@XXXX ,
216where
217.Pa XXXX
218is decided by
219.Xr mkstemp 3 ,
220are created in the target directory.
221.El
222.Sh EXIT STATUS
223.Ex -std
224.Sh COMPATIBILITY
225Historically
226.Nm
227moved files by default.
228The default was changed to copy in
229.Fx 4.4 .
230.Sh SEE ALSO
231.Xr chflags 1 ,
232.Xr chgrp 1 ,
233.Xr chmod 1 ,
234.Xr cp 1 ,
235.Xr mv 1 ,
236.Xr strip 1 ,
237.Xr mmap 2 ,
238.Xr chown 8
239.Sh HISTORY
240The
241.Nm
242utility appeared in
243.Bx 4.2 .
244.Sh BUGS
245Temporary files may be left in the target directory if
246.Nm
247exits abnormally.
248.Pp
249File flags cannot be set by
250.Xr fchflags 2
251over a NFS file system.
252Other file systems do not have a concept of flags.
253The
254.Nm
255utility will only warn when flags could not be set on a file system
256that does not support them.
257.Pp
258The
259.Nm
260utility with
261.Fl v
262falsely says a file is copied when
263.Fl C
264snaps hard links.
265