stow Command Examples

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

• Symlink all files recursively to a given directory:

stow {{[-t|--target]}} {{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Delete symlinks recursively from a given directory:

stow {{[-D|--delete]}} {{[-t|--target]}} {{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Simulate to see what the result would be like:

stow {{[-n|--simulate]}} {{[-t|--target]}} {{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Delete and resymlink:

stow {{[-R|--restow]}} {{[-t|--target]}} {{path/to/target_directory}} {{file1 directory1 file2 directory2}}

• Exclude files matching a regular expression:

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