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<!-- This manual describes GNU Stow version 2.3.2-fixbug56727
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(2 November 2023), a program for managing farms of symbolic links.
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Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following:
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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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© 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net>
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© 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>
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<div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Target-Maintenance">
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Next: <a href="Resource-Files.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Resource Files</a>, Previous: <a href="Multiple-Stow-Directories.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Multiple Stow Directories</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="Target-Maintenance-1"><span>10 Target Maintenance<a class="copiable-link" href="#Target-Maintenance-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-maintenance"></a>
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<p>From time to time you will need to clean up your target tree. Since
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version 2, Stow provides a new utility <code class="command">chkstow</code> to help with
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this. It includes three operational modes which performs checks that
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would generally be too expensive to be performed during normal stow
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execution.
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<p>The syntax of the <code class="command">chkstow</code> command is:
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<pre class="example-preformatted">chkstow [<var class="var">options</var>]
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<p>The following options are supported:
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">-t <var class="var">dir</var></samp>’</dt>
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">--target=<var class="var">dir</var></samp>’</dt>
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<dd><p>Set the target directory to <var class="var">dir</var> instead of the parent of the stow
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directory. Defaults to the parent of the stow directory, so it is typical to
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execute <code class="command">stow</code> from the directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>.
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">-b</samp>’</dt>
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">--badlinks</samp>’</dt>
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<dd><p>Checks target directory for bogus symbolic links. That is, links that point to
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non-existent files.
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">-a</samp>’</dt>
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">--aliens</samp>’</dt>
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<dd><p>Checks for files in the target directory that are not symbolic links. The
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target directory should be managed by stow alone, except for directories that
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contain a <samp class="file">.stow</samp> file.
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">-l</samp>’</dt>
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<dt>‘<samp class="samp">--list</samp>’</dt>
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<dd><p>Will display the target package for every symbolic link in the stow target
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directory.
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