File name followed by a tilde ~
Just wondering what a file name followed by a tilde means?
Example: -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1 2009-02-17 15:23 myFile~ |
this are backupfiles, created by some editors
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Nothing special really. It depends on the application that created it, it has no special meaning for linux in this context. I think that some text editors use that suffix to save backups of the files you edit.
However, when it's on the beginning of a path or a file name, ~ is usually expanded to the contents of $HOME (so, cd ~/bin is the same that cd $HOME/bin). |
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