Randy McMurchy wrote:
The install command should be used to show the proper way
to do things and not rely on the umask and or other things hopefully
set up correctly. Install is fool-proof. mkdir can do things wrong
if the user doesn't have things set up just right.
Install is simply the better example of how to do things right.
But it doesn't do the user a bit of good one way or the other if he
doesn't know why he's using install vs. mkdir. Brief explanatory text
might be worthwhile here.
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JH
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