On Tuesday 25 Sep 01, Rich Megginson writes:
> Why doesn't install.exe (from fileutils)
If it's from fileutils, then your argument is with the GNU fileutils
folks, not with Cygwin. You can study <http://www.gnu.org/directory/fileutils.html>
for details on how to reach them.
> have an option to create the destination directory if it does not exist if installing
> more than 1 source file? For example, I want to do something like this:
> install *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this complains that the directory does not exist
> install -D *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this only works with one source and dest file
> install -d *.pl /path/to/destination/perl/script/directory
> > this tries to create all directories mentioned in the command line
>
> Most unixen have install -c (or -t) which creates the destination directory if it
>does not exist. I notice install.exe accepts
> and ignores -c?????
>
Regards,
David
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