stow
Symlink manager. Often used to manage dotfiles. 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}}
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