What's with these files with a tilde (~) at the end?

[Mateusz Drożdżyński]

Hi,

On 2/12/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> how do I get rid of them

Run this in the terminal:
find . -iname "*~" -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

It deletes all files ending with ~ in current directory and all its
subdirectories.

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Pozdrawiam,
Mateusz Drożdżyński