[NTLUG:Discuss] Removing lots of Files - help.

[Victor Brilon]

This is about 100% off topic but since we're heading down this path....

If the ~ files are being created by emacs/xemacs and you don't want 
those files all over the place, put something like this into your .emacs 
file:

(setq auto-save-directory (expand-file-name "/tmp/autosave/")
       auto-save-directory-fallback auto-save-directory
       auto-save-hash-p nil
       auto-save-interval 2000
       )
(require 'auto-save)
(setq bkup-backup-directory-info
         '((t "/tmp/autosave" ok-create full-path)))

This will put all of your ~ files into /tmp/autosave and not litter the 
filesystem with them. Not only that it will autosave your files at 
standard intervals so you always have backup copies.

Victor


Greg Edwards wrote:
> Bobby Sanders wrote:
> 
>> I want to remove all of the files on my system which end in tilde, ~.
>> I'm running bash, know this should be easy, have read lots of
>> Cameron's book, which I love, but can't put my finger on this.
>>
>> Help please.  Thanks.
>>
>> Bobby Sanders
>>
> 
> Here's 2 aliases I use.  These get both normal and hidden files.
> 
> alias clrbak='rm -f *~;rm -f .*~'
> 
> alias clrallbak='find . -name "*~" -exec rm -f "{}" ";"; find . -name 
> ".*~" -exec rm -f "{}" ";"'
>