Hi, >I would like to know if it is possible to delete all file ending by the >symbol ~ >with the command without risk : > rm -R *~ >I have more and more of them every day.
I would consider that command harmful in that it even removes complete directories matching *~. But if that's what you want, why not? I personally have an alias like alias purge='/bin/rm -f ./*~ ./.*~' in my .bashrc, remaining me of the old VMS days. Harald
