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+#! /bin/sh
+
+# remove-stow-conflicts -- 
+#		remove all conflicts detected by stow, but that are
+#		already links to previous stow packages... 
+
+# $Id: remove-stow-conflicts,v 1.1 1997/10/17 21:19:03 cdua Exp cdua $
+# Carlos Duarte, 970903/971017
+
+stow -nvc $* 2>&1 \
+  | sed -n '/^CONFLICT/s/^.*vs\. //p' \
+  | while read i; do 
+	test -L $i || {
+		echo Skipping $i ...
+		continue
+	}
+
+	point_to=`ls -ald $i | awk '{print $NF}'`
+
+	#echo $i points to $point_to
+	case $point_to in 
+	..*/stow/* | ..*/?stow/* | stow/* ) 
+		echo "Deleting $i (link to $point_to)"...
+		rm -f $i
+	esac
+done