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10 Target Maintenance
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From time to time you will need to clean up your target tree.  Since
version 2, Stow provides a new utility `chkstow' to help with this.  It
includes three operational modes which performs checks that would
generally be too expensive to be performed during normal stow execution.

   The syntax of the `chkstow' command is:

     chkstow [OPTIONS]

The following options are supported:

`-t DIR'
`--target=DIR'
     Set the target directory to DIR instead of the parent of the stow
     directory.  Defaults to the parent of the stow directory, so it is
     typical to execute `stow' from the directory `/usr/local/stow'.

`-b'
`--badlinks'
     Checks target directory for bogus symbolic links. That is, links
     that point to non-existent files.

`-a'
`--aliens'
     Checks for files in the target directory that are not symbolic
     links. The target directory should be managed by stow alone,
     except for directories that contain a `.stow' file.

`-l'
`--list'
     Will display the target package for every symbolic link in the
     stow target directory.