Shell script to remove backup ~ files

hallamigo · 06-13-2005, 04:45 PM

Not sure if this would be a combination of grep and rm, but I'd like to be able to run a script that scans all files in a directory and any directory under it to remove backup files.

ie. index.html~ or filename.txt~ - anything with a ~ as the last character ...

Any help on this shell script would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

dub.wav · 06-13-2005, 05:00 PM

find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} \;

hallamigo · 06-13-2005, 08:32 PM

Great, that works perfectly - thanks!

lanka · 09-13-2010, 03:47 PM

Hi there, i used tht ssh but seems nothing happen, where the error?