NAME

unstow — unstow packages much faster than stow -D

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The unstow command is a utility to unstow packages. It performs much faster than “stow -D” because unstow searches a package directory for stowed files while stow(1) searches the target directory for matching symlinks.

CAVEATS

unstow does not check if a symlink to be removed points to a file of the named package, so please double check if you are specifying the correct package.

OPTIONS

The following command line arguments are supported:

-h

Show the help screen and exit.

-V

Show Unstow and Stow version numbers and exit.

-n

Do not actually make changes.

-v

Be verbose.

-d DIR

Set stow dir to DIR (default is current dir).

-t DIR

Set target to DIR (default is parent of stow dir).

SEE ALSO

stow(1)

HISTORY

The unstow utility was written in around 2008 and first released on December 2009.

AUTHORS

Akinori MUSHA ⟨knu@iDaemons.org⟩