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So I figure files ending with a ~ sign are some sort of previous versions of the text files they represent. I don't like them lying around everywhere so I figured that maybe I can remove them all on every shutdown. Is it safe to remove all such files from let's say /etc directory? /home directory? I mean the files corresponding to various configs.
The second issue is how to do it 'rm *~' will surely do if I only want to remove them from a single directory, but what if I want to delete all those files that are within my /home, no matter in what subdirectory they reside?
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Thats a very ugly solution. Remove these once and it's done. These files are mostly backups from the original files, created by editors like vim. A "set backup off" in /etc/vimrc should do it.
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A "set backup off" in /etc/vimrc should do it.
Haven't thought of that i guess it's solved.
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