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That does not work for me. When I try "stow foo/bar" I get this error:

  Undefined subroutine &main::error called at /usr/bin/stow line 568, <DATA> line 18.

where line 568 of /usr/bin/stow is:

  error("Slashes are not permitted in package names");

What version of stow do you have? I'm using stow 2.2.0-r2 on Gentoo Linux.

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From the documentation page:

>A package directory is the root of a tree containing the installation image for a particular package. Each package directory must reside in a stow directory — e.g., the package directory /usr/local/stow/perl must reside in the stow directory /usr/local/stow. The name of a package is the name of its directory within the stow directory — e.g., perl.

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html

The article in the OP also doesn't use this format. Instead it's prefaced with a `cd` command, so you would need to do:

    cd foo; stow bar

I use xstow, which permits slashes; usually I do just cd into the dotfiles directory and stow out from there (otherwise you need to specify a target directory) but I left that part out for brevity.

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