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GNU Stow

I use stow file to restor and ammend several dotfile of my daily workflow. I also used .stow_local_ignore file to ignore some files which I will not be using

GNU Stow ignore file

To stow dotfiles

Assume your current directory is the main dir and the parent directory is the targeted directory. (check stow -h)

$stow . --verbose=2

To unlink and remove all stow files

You can use

$stow -D .