stow
Manage farms of symbolic links
Options
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
-n, --no | Do not perform any operations that modify the filesystem; merely show what would happen |
-d, --dir <DIR> | Set the stow directory to 'DIR' instead of the current directory. This also has the effect of making the default target directory be the parent of 'DIR' |
-t, --target <DIR> | Set the target directory to 'DIR' instead of the parent of the stow directory |
-v, --verbose <level> | Send verbose output to standard error describing what Stow is doing. Verbosity levels are from 0 to 5; 0 is the default. Using '-v' or '--verbose' increases the verbosity by one; using `--verbose=N' sets it to N |
-S, --stow | Stow the packages that follow this option into the target directory. This is the default action and so can be omitted if you are only stowing packages rather than performing a mixture of stow/delete/restow actions |
-D, --delete | Unstow the packages that follow this option from the target directory rather than installing them |
-R, --restow | Restow packages (first unstow, then stow again). This is useful for pruning obsolete symlinks from the target tree after updating the software in a package |
--adopt |
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--no-folding | Disable folding of newly stowed directories when stowing, and refolding of newly foldable directories when unstowing |
--ignore <REGEX> | Ignore files ending in this Perl regex |
--defer <REGEX> | Don't stow files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is already stowed to another package |
--override <REGEX> | Force stowing files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is already stowed to another package |
--dotfiles | Enable special handling for 'dotfiles' (files or folders whose name begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder whose name begins with 'dot - ', and replace the 'dot- ' prefix in the name by a period (.). This is useful when Stow is used to manage collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full of hidden files |
-V, --version | Show Stow version, and exit |
-h, --help | Show Stow command syntax, and exit |