OptionsOn stow itself
-n--no
Do not perform any operations that modify the filesystem; merely show what would happen
-d--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' <DIR>
-t--target
Set the target directory to 'DIR' instead of the parent of the stow directory <DIR>
-v--verbose
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 <level>
-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
This behaviour is specifically intended to alter the contents of your stow directory. If you do not want that, this option is not for you
--no-folding
Disable folding of newly stowed directories when stowing, and refolding of newly foldable directories when unstowing
--ignore
Ignore files ending in this Perl regex <REGEX>
--defer
Don't stow files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is already stowed to another package <REGEX>
--override
Force stowing files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is already stowed to another package <REGEX>
--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
