Installation using stow

• Move the dotfiles into a folder within the home directory
• Run the following command to create all the symlinks using stow

$ stow .

Structure of stow

• The dotfiles folder has to have the same structure as from the home folder

home/kali/.config/.somefile
dotfiles/.config/.somefile

• Easy command for moving files after they are copied to the dotfiles directory (replaces conflicting files in the original directory)

$ stow --adopt .

Adding new files to the ignore list

$ echo ".myfile" > .stow-local-ignore