In article <9607091532.AA28744@bach> gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross) writes:
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>Would it be useful if "install -C" advised you when it did NOT copy?
>It could print a message to stderr:  "file already up-to-date"

Actually the best part is that if you do it with make rules, only the
install lines that actually get executed are printed. So if you have
an up-to-date system and you type make install, make returns after
a while having printed only the names of the directories it traverses.

christos