On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:23:13 -0400
Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do I get rid of the "~" so that the backups are file.1, file.2,
> etc.? 

How about using the GNU rename in the dir holding your backup files:

$ rename "~" "" *~*
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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