Ignore directories in stow

[Rudra Banerjee]

Hi all,

I am relatively new in stow (using for last 6 months). While this is working fine for backing up my config files, it is actually storing unwanted files, and not obeying my .stow-local-ignore.

I am using a script to install stow all my stowed files:

cat ~/bin/stow.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This script will Stow all the dotfiles located in the ~/dotfiles folder.

# The -R flag is used to force a 'restow' which will remove any existing symlinks before attempting to Stow.

echo "Stowing Dotfiles...";

cd ~/Utility/configs

for file in *; do

  # Only run Stow on the directories in the dotfiles folder and not the individual files.

  # Using 'basename' strips the filepath from the directory name.

  if [ -d ${file} ]; then

    stow  $(basename $file) -t ~/

    echo "$(basename $file) stowed.";

  fi

done

# Return back to the your PWD from before you ran the script

cd ~-

echo 'All stowed';

Now, among many stowed files, lets take the example of vim: The path is:

~/Utility/configs/vim  which has the structure:

tree -a -L 2

.

├── .stow-local-ignore

├── .vim

│   ├── autoload

│   ├── plugged

│   ├── spell

│   └── UltiSnips

└── .vimrc

But, inside .vim, I don't want plugged and spells to be stowed, so, I have .stow-local-ignore:

 cat .stow-local-ignore

\.vim/plugged

\.vim/spell

But this is not working.  I have actually deleted those unwanted dir's and unlinked ~/.vim and restowed, but this does not work. As soon as those files are generated inside ~/.vim, it is stowed. 

How I ignore them?

Kindly help.