Hi.

"dolphin" <jdxyw2004@gmail.com> writes:

> If I do not want creat a backup file when I edit a file.What should I
> do?

Somebody already mentioned using a cron job to delete files *~ over a
certain age.

Something else that I find helpful: I have a little script "eclean"
that gets rid of files matching the patterns
*~
..??*~
\#*\#
in either the current directory or a directory given on the command
line.

Another helpful idea: If you're developing a program in some
directory, add a make target that gets rid of crufty files such as
above. At the minimum, you probably want to have a make target
that gets rid of the executable(s) being built, *.o files, emacs
cruft, and suchlike. This is especially useful if you want to package
the sources into a tarball for distribution.

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