NAME

unstow —

unstow packages much faster than stow -D

SYNOPSIS

unstow [-nv] [-d stow_dir] [-t target_dir] packages ...

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).

HISTORY

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

AUTHORS

Akinori MUSHA ⟨knu@iDaemons.org⟩