Stow directory and subdirectory
Junchen Gu <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:04:05 -0600
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Hi, I just started to use stow today and thanks for making this awesome tool! After playing around with it, I got it to work but I have two questions: 1. It seems that stow only applies to package directory, not individual executable. I have installed several tools where there is only one executable I want to stow in the package directory among many other files. If I stow the package directory, everything will be stowed, which is not what I want. Is there or will there be a function to only select executables based on their names? I know the ignore list function but when there is only one or two executables I want, it's much harder to ignore many things than picking up a few. 2. In the GNU manual page (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html), it says " If a new subdirectory is encountered whilst stowing a new package, the subdirectory is created within the target, and its contents are symlinked, rather than just creating a symlink for the directory" I can see this happen where the executables in the subdirectory (/bin) can be invoked when I only have the target directory in the $PATH. However, I don't understand why in the terminal, I can only see subdirectory symlinks but not actual executable symlinks? Thanks! -- Best, Junchen