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chrismiceli · 11-07-2002, 07:44 PM

how come when I use gedit to make files and such it creates two files a blah.html and a blah.html~ it does that with any file extenstion. what is this for?

Thymox · 11-07-2002, 07:49 PM

The one with the ~ at the end is the backup copy of the original prior to editing.

Half_Elf · 11-08-2002, 05:25 PM

linux doesn't care about extension you know... In fact, Windoze isthe only OS I know that use this stupid method to know what a file is.

Thymox · 11-09-2002, 05:20 PM

It's not really an extension, per se, because usually these would have a point between... filename.~, but they are a filename~. AFAIK it's been like this for a very long time, before Linux was a twinkle. It's also very handy, so you always have a copy of the file prior to the last edit, but no further back. Useful if you forgot to make a backup copy yourself. Oh, ana Chris, it needn't be *.*~... you can get away with *~ in any *nix system.