Remove Temporary Files - Bash Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 1667

at November 6, 2006 04:30 by micmath

Updated Code

find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;

Revision: 1666

at November 6, 2006 04:26 by micmath

Initial Code

find . -name ".*~" -exec rm {} \;

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Initial Description

vi and other editors leave behind tilde files. Since tilde is special, you must take special measures to use it with rm.

Initial Title

Remove Temporary Files

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Initial Language

Bash