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Henry Hartley henryhartley at westat.com
Fri Feb 18 21:16:40 UTC 2005


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 at 4:08 PM, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Marc M" <linuxr at gmail.com>
>> 
>> > I have duplicate named files with tildes at the end.  Example: 
>> > file1.txt and file1.txt~
>> > 
>> > Are they fragments or something left in RAM?  What's the
>> > differrence between them and the regular named file?  I use
>> > gedit and always close my files when I am done.  Is the
>> > filesystem creating that?  Other than deleting them, what
>> > can I do to not have them?

You can safely delete them IF you don't need them for backup.

>> This is the way some editors, such as vi, leave backup files
>> when you edit a file.

In gedit, you can turn off automatic backups by going to Edit |
Preferences and unchecking the "Create a backup copy of files before
saving" box.

-- 
Henry




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