n00i3 Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 hey guys is there some sort of a utility that will clean out the backup files created by the editors... i hate having to deleting the ~files ... any help appreciated :P :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 what editor are we talking about? if its vi or its derivatives you can put set nobackup in your ~/.exrc and it wont generate backup files. im sure other editors have this option as well. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Alternatively, look into bash / shell scripting and make your own script to do it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00i3 Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Alternatively, look into bash / shell scripting and make your own script to do it.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah that's an option ... but i don't want to delete any files that i've named with a ~ :P i work off a FAT32 partition that I share with windows ... so i have a bunch of those files that i need to get rid off :D PS: i use kwrite the most :P ... i'll look around in the options of that! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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