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From: "Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot
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This isn't a cygwin question, it's a bash specific question and should
have been addressed elsewhere.  That being said, * doesn't match files
that start with a . by default.  You can change this with 'setopt
dotglob', or you can use 'rm .*~' (Note the dot before the star)

~Matt

On 11/3/06, Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Why doesn't this work? I want to remove .bashrc~ (ls has been aliased to
> include -AF):
> hivemind AT mindcooler ~
> $ ls
> .bash_history   .bashrc*   .emacs*    .emacs.elc*  .ssh/
> .bash_profile*  .bashrc~*  .emacs.d/  .inputrc*    coding/
>
> hivemind AT 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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