> Is using a swung dash in front of the file name > the only usual UNIX/Linux backup convention > (using "~filename" as a backup for "filename")
There really is no convention for backup file names. Unlike DOS/Windows, extensions do not exist as such in Unix -- the '.' is a filename character like any other. In DOS/Windows, it's a separator. Of course, habits con- tinue :) and putting 'extensions' after the '.' can still serve some useful purpose, although Unix doesn't care. That being said, the only software I know that uses the '~' to mean that it's a backup file is Emacs, so that's hardly a convention, in any sense (apologies to Richard Stallman, of course :). > The reason i ask is i can see a possible visual > conflict here with the use of the swung dash as > home directory. Not really: the tilde ~ is always used at the *beginning* of a filename / directory, never at the end. > -> User misreads There's always that possibility. One thing I found irksome in the beginning was the 'convention' of file names- particularly for versions of software, that tend to be quite long and are intermixed with periods, dashes, and underlines - like foopackage-1.2.0-1._whatever_.something.rpm :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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