Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them all appear to be installed in a single directory tree.
| stow alternatives | Programming Language | License |
|---|---|---|
| boxunbox | Rust | BSD Zero Clause License |
| stow-cm | Rust | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| stown | Python | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| Rustow | Rust | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| XStow | C++ | GNU General Public License v2.0 |
| Tuckr | Rust | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| Dploy | Python | MIT License |
| fling | Go | MIT License |
| lash | Rust | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| yadm | Python | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| lnko | Lua | GNU General Public License v3.0 |
| DotState | Rust | MIT License |
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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