stow Command Examples

Symlink manager. Often used to manage dotfiles. See also: chezmoi, tuckr, vcsh, homeshick. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow.

• Symlink all files recursively to a given directory:

stow --target={{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Delete symlinks recursively from a given directory:

stow --delete --target={{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Simulate to see what the result would be like:

stow --simulate --target={{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Delete and resymlink:

stow --restow --target={{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Exclude files matching a regular expression:

stow --ignore={{regular_expression}} --target={{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}