On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
usually a ~ is a backup copy. You can always delete or rm the file that had
the change and cp the ~ file back to a reg file. It had been convenient for me
t whenever I alter a file. and after saving it. it automatically store the
original file to a ~ file which mean if the alter one didnt work. I always
delete and cp the ~ file back to the original file and try alter it to
something else.
> flupke wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> >
> > > Hey folks,
> > >
> > > after running a perl-script al files an directories on a separate
> > > partition are now ending with a ~ like file~ or directory~ and are only
> > > visible in the shell.
> > > How can i get this back?
> >
> > I can't figure out what happend or what script you have run to have that,
> > but if all you want to do is removing the trailing ~ at the end of your
> > filenames, then you can issue the following command :
> > for i in * ; do mv $i ${i%%\~} ; done
> >
> > HTH
> > Flupke
> >
> > --
> > << There's no place like ~ >>
> thanx, thats what i need.
>
> Veit
