Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:32:52 +0100 Message-ID: <8469-Wed26Sep2001103252+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: richm@netscape.com (Rich Megginson) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: install.exe does not create destination directory if more than 1 source file In-Reply-To: <3BB1083F.28199A38@netscape.com> References: <3BB1083F.28199A38@netscape.com> 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 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/