From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 9: 5:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A994155C8 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from bunny.monsterbymistake.com([205.207.163.17]) (1238 bytes) by mail.monsterbymistake.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:04:56 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.107 1999-Sep-8 #1 built 1999-Sep-11) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:04:44 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3 simple bsd questions (man, ~ and moused) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG |2. What does the '~' after a filename mean? Is this a deleted file |that can be undeleted? I tried man file, filename, ~, undelete, and vim uses that as a edit-backup. foo.py foo.py~ and foo.py~ will be an older version. Other programs may do this as well. For configuration files I keep a .orig eg: hosts.orig I've seen you posting alot about trying out different editors so I'll assume that's what your ~ files are. -- -ly y'rs, Agent Drek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message