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cyrilng 06-22-2009 03:38 PM
how to delete *~ files created by rsync
 
Hello
i did some "rsync -avb dir1 dir2" and now on the destination directory there are some backupe files that end with ~
so i have twice some files on the destination dir
my question is :
how to erase all the files that end with ~ automatically?
I tried with "rm -rf *~" but it didn't work
thanks for the help

twantrd 06-22-2009 03:41 PM
Code:
rm -f ./*~
-twantrd

cyrilng 06-22-2009 03:49 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by twantrd (Post 3582692)
Code:
rm -f ./*~
-twantrd
this doesn't work neither...
It's strange...

AlucardZero 06-22-2009 04:48 PM
WFM
Code:
alucard@karrde:/tmp$ touch a~
alucard@karrde:/tmp$ ls
a~  ip.cache  sage.log
alucard@karrde:/tmp$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 alucard alucard  0 2009-06-22 17:47 a~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    15 2009-06-17 11:33 ip.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 alucard alucard  0 2009-06-22 16:18 sage.log
alucard@karrde:/tmp$ rm -i a~
rm: remove regular empty file `a~'? y
alucard@karrde:/tmp$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root    15 2009-06-17 11:33 ip.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 alucard alucard  0 2009-06-22 16:18 sage.log
What does the rm command say when you use it?

twantrd 06-22-2009 05:39 PM
Try deleting it based on the inode number

Code:
[twantrd@twantrd test]$ ls -i *
58499 b~  58500 test
[twantrd@twantrd test]$ find . -inum 58499 -exec rm {} \;
[twantrd@twantrd test]$ ls
test
[twantrd@twantrd test]$

-twantrd

cyrilng 06-23-2009 01:04 AM
i managed to do it using "rsync -avz --delete dirsource dirdest"


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