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Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot
- From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:26:20 +0100
- Subject: Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot
Why doesn't this work? I want to remove .bashrc~ (ls has been aliased to
include -AF):
hivemind@mindcooler ~
$ ls
.bash_history .bashrc* .emacs* .emacs.elc* .ssh/
.bash_profile* .bashrc~* .emacs.d/ .inputrc* coding/
hivemind@mindcooler ~
$ rm *~
rm: cannot remove `*~': No such file or directory
Obviously I can remove it by naming the file explicitly but I want to
know why the lines I pasted above doesn't work so I learn something. :-)
rm has not been aliased
/ Eric Lilja
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