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From: jkf@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu@ficl.UUCP (John Foderaro)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: concerning Gnu Emacs backup files
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Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 14:28:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  4 14:28:08 1987
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 As an alternative to putting backup files in a ~/.gnubackup
directory, I'd like to suggest that you try these two ideas:
 1. make the backup filenames begin with '.#' and the checkpoint
    filenames begin with '.##'.   This makes these files invisible
    unless you use 'ls -a' and thus they aren't as bothersome to keep
    around.

 2. add a line to /usr/lib/crontab (or else use 'at' if you aren't a 
    superuser) which daily checks for out of date backup and
    checkpoint files and removes them.  The crontab entry
    I use looks like this:
			this is the clause that looks for gnumacs backups
							    |
							    v
40 4 * * * find / '(' -name '#*' -o -name '*.CKP' -o -name '.#*' ')' -a -atime +3 -a -exec rm -f {} ';'
  
 

-john foderaro