install(1)

✨ install(1) — the glow-up station ✨

okay bestie, so this is install from the General Commands Manual section, and she is literally the copy command that also does your permission modes AND your owner/group in one go. main character energy fr fr 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

install — copy SOURCE to DEST, or copy a whole lil squad of SOURCE(s) into an already-existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

install [--backup] [-b ] [-c ] [-C|--compare] [-d|--directory] [-D ]
[-g|--group] [-m|--mode] [-o|--owner] [-p|--preserve-timestamps]
[-s|--strip] [--strip-program] [-S|--suffix] [-t|--target-directory]
[-T|--no-target-directory] [-v|--verbose] [-P|--preserve-context] [-Z ]
[--context] [-U|--unprivileged] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Copy SOURCE to DEST, or copy multiple SOURCE(s) to the existing DIRECTORY, while setting permission modes and owner/group. that's it, that's the vibe. she copies, she chmods, she chowns, she serves 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --backup[=<CONTROL>] — make a backup of each existing destination file. yes, she keeps receipts 🎀
• -b — like --backup but she does not accept an argument, so no <CONTROL> for you bestie
• -c — ignored. literally just standing there, existing, doing nothing 🙈
• -C, --compare — compare each pair of source and destination files, and in some cases, do not modify the destination at all. she looks before she touches 💅
• -d, --directory — treat all arguments as directory names. create all components of the specified directories. whole tree, all at once 🌈
• -D — create all leading components of DEST except the last, then copy SOURCE to DEST ✨
• -g, --group <GROUP> — set group ownership, instead of the process's current group 👑
• -m, --mode <MODE> — set permission mode (as in chmod), instead of rwxr-xr-x. the default is giving default, but you can change it 🎀
• -o, --owner <OWNER> — set ownership (super-user only). sorry bestie, this one needs the fancy badge 🚨
• -p, --preserve-timestamps — apply access/modification times of SOURCE files to the corresponding destination files. she remembers when things happened ⏰
• -s, --strip — strip symbol tables (no action Windows). on Windows she is simply not participating 💀
• --strip-program <PROGRAM> — program used to strip binaries (no action Windows) 🧚
• -S, --suffix <SUFFIX> — override the usual backup suffix. pick your own lil ending 🌸
• -t, --target-directory <DIRECTORY> — move all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY 📦
• -T, --no-target-directory — treat DEST as a normal file. no special treatment, she's just a file, periodt 💜
• -v, --verbose — explain what is being done. she will narrate her own life 🗣️✨
• -P, --preserve-context — preserve security context 🔐
• -Z — set SELinux security context of the destination file and each created directory to the default type 🛡️
• --context [<CONTEXT>] — set security context of files and directories 🔒
• -U, --unprivileged — do not require elevated privileges to change the owner, the group, or the file flags of the destination. lowkey accessible, we love that 🫶
• -h, --help — Print help. she'll tell you about herself 📖
• -V, --version — Print version 🏷️
• [files] — the files themselves, the whole reason we're here 🍓

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that reading. this was install (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, straight from the uutils coreutils girlies, and yeah the header said General Commands Manual but we both know it's giving main character. slay, go copy something 💖✨🎀