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       "such as shell scripts.  Use the TARGETS form to install targets "
       "built within the project."
       "\n"
+      "The DIRECTORY signature:\n"
+      "  INSTALL(DIRECTORY dirs... DESTINATION <dir>\n"
+      "          [FILE_PERMISSIONS permissions...]\n"
+      "          [DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS permissions...]\n"
+      "          [USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS]\n"
+      "          [CONFIGURATIONS [Debug|Release|...]]\n"
+      "          [COMPONENT <component>]\n"
+      "          [[PATTERN <pattern> | REGEX <regex>]\n"
+      "           [EXCLUDE] [PERMISSIONS permissions...]] [...])\n"
+      "The DIRECTORY form installs contents of one or more directories "
+      "to a given destination.  "
+      "The directory structure is copied verbatim to the destination.  "
+      "The last component of each directory name is appended to the "
+      "destination directory but a trailing slash may be used to "
+      "avoid this because it leaves the last component empty.  "
+      "Directory names given as relative paths are interpreted with "
+      "respect to the current source directory.  "
+      "The FILE_PERMISSIONS and DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS options specify "
+      "permissions given to files and directories in the destination.  "
+      "If USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS is specified and FILE_PERMISSIONS is not, "
+      "file permissions will be copied from the source directory structure.  "
+      "If no permissions are specified files will be given the default "
+      "permissions specified in the FILES form of the command, and the "
+      "directories will be given the default permissions specified in the "
+      "PROGRAMS form of the command.  "
+      "The PATTERN and REGEX options specify a globbing pattern or regular "
+      "expression to match directories or files encountered during traversal "
+      "of an input directory.  The full path to an input file or directory "
+      "(with forward slashes) is matched against the expression.  "
+      "A PATTERN will match only complete file names: the portion of the full "
+      "path matching the pattern must occur at the end of the file name and "
+      "be preceded by a slash.  "
+      "A REGEX will match any portion of the full path but it may use "
+      "'/' and '$' to simulate the PATTERN behavior.  "
+      "Options following one of these matching expressions "
+      "are applied only to files or directories matching them.  The EXCLUDE "
+      "option will skip the matched file or directory.  The PERMISSIONS "
+      "option overrides the permissions setting for the matched file.  "
+      "For example the code\n"
+      "  INSTALL(DIRECTORY icons scripts/ DESTINATION share/myproj\n"
+      "          PATTERN \"CVS\" EXCLUDE\n"
+      "          PATTERN \"scripts/*\"\n"
+      "          PERMISSIONS OWNER_EXECUTE OWNER_WRITE OWNER_READ\n"
+      "                      GROUP_EXECUTE GROUP_READ)\n"
+      "will install the icons directory to share/myproj/icons and the "
+      "scripts directory to share/myproj.  The icons will get default file "
+      "permissions, the scripts will be given specific permissions, and "
+      "any CVS directories will be excluded."
+      "\n"
       "The SCRIPT and CODE signature:\n"
       "  INSTALL([[SCRIPT <file>] [CODE <code>]] [...])\n"
       "The SCRIPT form will invoke the given CMake script files during "