24 November 2005 1 comment Linux
Last month I complained about how brutal the rm program in Linux was and how I cocked things up when I wanted to remove the autosaved backup files that jed creates. Here's the solution...
I created a script in ~/bin/Mvbackupfiles that looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
mv -v *~ /tmp
Now, whenever I want to clear a directory of all files like dummy.py~ or README.txt~, I just run Mvbackupfiles and I become a much happier and tidier person.
Here's what it can look like:
peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ ls
index.html index.html~
peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ Mvbackupfiles
`index.html~' -> `/tmp/index.html~'
peterbe@trillian:~/dev/signature_hider $ ls
index.html
Isn't there a setting to put those backup files into /tmp in the first place?