Assuming you have the following in your .vimrc: > set directory=$HOME/.vim/swap
You can easily use find and metadata from the file system to remove files that
have not been accessed in more than 30 days:
> find ~/.vim/swap -type f -atime +30 -name \*.sw? -exec rm -f {} \;
Using xargs doesn't correctly handle files with spaces in their name by default
in my environment. I'm not sure of the portability of fixes for this so I stuck
with -exec.
-Adrian
On May 8, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-05-08, Paul wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 01 May, 2013 at 20:11:08 BST, Mike Hume wrote:
>>> You could setup a tmp directory for where swp files are stores.
>>>
>>> set directory=~/.vim/tmp/swap
>>>
>>> If you have swp files littered about, run this command to
>>> recursively find and delete them:
>>>
>>> find . -type d -name .swp | xargs rm -rf
>>
>> I don't recommend this, because like George Dinwiddie says, it
>> doesn't check to see if any swap files are in use, but this is a
>> more efficient command:
>>
>> find ~ -type f -name \*.swp -delete
>
> Also, not all swap files end in .swp. If Vim needs to create a swap
> file and one ending in .swp already exists, Vim will use the
> extension .swo for the new one and .swn after that. I think it just
> continues backwards through the alphabet. So using something like
>
> \*.sw[nop]
>
> or even
>
> \*.sw?
>
> would be more thorough.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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