{
"name": "install",
"description": "The file(s) are copied to the target file or directory. If the destination is a directory, then the file is copied into directory with its original filename. If the target file already exists, it is e",
"options": [
{
"names": [
"-B"
],
"description": "Use suffix as the backup suffix if -b is given",
"takes_arg": true,
"arg": {
"name": "suffix"
}
},
{
"names": [
"-b"
],
"description": "Back up any existing files before overwriting them by renaming them to file.old. See -B for specifying a different backup suffix"
},
{
"names": [
"-C"
],
"description": "Copy the file. If the target file already exists and the files are the same, then don't change the modification time of the target"
},
{
"names": [
"-c"
],
"description": "Copy the file. This is actually the default. The -c option is only included for backwards compatibility"
},
{
"names": [
"-d"
],
"description": "Create directories. Missing parent directories are created as required"
},
{
"names": [
"-f"
],
"description": "Specify the target's file flags; see chflags(1) for a list of possible flags and their meanings"
},
{
"names": [
"-g"
],
"description": "Specify a group. A numeric GID is allowed"
},
{
"names": [
"-M"
],
"description": "Disable all use of mmap(2)"
},
{
"names": [
"-m"
],
"description": "Specify an alternate mode. The default mode is set to rwxr-xr-x (0755). The specified mode may be either an octal or symbolic value; see chmod(1) for a description of possible mode values"
},
{
"names": [
"-o"
],
"description": "Specify an owner. A numeric UID is allowed"
},
{
"names": [
"-p"
],
"description": "Preserve the modification time. Copy the file, as if the -C (compare and copy) option is specified, except if the target file doesn't already exist or is different, then preserve the modification time"
},
{
"names": [
"-S"
],
"description": "Safe copy. Normally, install unlinks an existing target before installing the new file. With the -S flag a temporary file is used and then renamed to be the target. The reason this is safer is that if"
},
{
"names": [
"-s"
],
"description": "Exec's the command strip(1) to strip binaries so that install can be portable over a large number of systems and binary types"
},
{
"names": [
"-v"
],
"description": "Causes install to show when -C actually installs something"
}
],
"args": [
{
"name": "file1 file2 | file1 ... fileN directory | directory ...",
"description": "File(s) or directory(ies) installation directive",
"template": "filepaths"
}
]
}