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© 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>
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© 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>
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Next: <a href="Multiple-Stow-Directories.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Multiple Stow Directories</a>, Previous: <a href="Conflicts.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Conflicts</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Mixing-Operations-1"><span>8 Mixing Operations<a class="copiable-link" href="#Mixing-Operations-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<p>Since version 2.0, multiple distinct actions can be specified in a single
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invocation of GNU Stow. For example, to update an installation of Emacs from
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version 21.3 to 21.4a you can now do the following:
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<p>which will replace emacs-21.3 with emacs-21.4a using a single invocation.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-deferred-operation-1"></a>
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<p>This is much faster and cleaner than performing two separate
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invocations of stow, because redundant folding/unfolding operations
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can be factored out. In addition, all the operations are calculated
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and merged before being executed (see <a class="pxref" href="Conflicts.html#Deferred-Operation">Deferred Operation</a>), so the
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amount of of time in which GNU Emacs is unavailable is minimised.
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<p>You can mix and match any number of actions, for example,
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<pre class="example-preformatted">stow -S pkg1 pkg2 -D pkg3 pkg4 -S pkg5 -R pkg6
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