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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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> Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:57:28AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > This is arguably a bug in install(1), which should have an option to
> > > save a backup copy.
> > 
> > Umm, what about this:
> > 
> > -c      Copy the file.  This flag turns off the default behavior of
> >         install where it deletes the original file after
> >         creating the target.
> > 
> > Or perhaps I'm missing the point.  :-(
> 
> You are. Normally, install(1) moves the original file to its
> destination. The -c option makes it leave the original in place, but
> it still overwrites the destination. I want an option to make
> install(1) make a backup of the destination file before overwriting
> it.

I seem to have a dim memory of install(1) on  some system I used to use
having a -u option to unlink the destination before installing to
avoid the overwriting problem.  Perhaps renaming and unlinking on 
success would be better.

louie




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