Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently the form ``install -D some files /here/'' (with trailing slash) > is unusable for anything
Unfortunately POSIX standard says that standard utilities must ignore any trailing slashes on existing directory names. POSIX does not standardize 'install', but it's better if 'install' is consistent with standard utilities. Hence "install -D some files /here/" should behave like "install -D some files /here", if "/here" is an existing directory. One possible way around the problem would be to add a new option, say -e, to get the behavior that you want. "install -e A B C DEST" would do the equivalent of "install -d DEST" first, and then do the equivalent of "install A B C DEST". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
