[LUG] Makefiles - mv with wildcard that may not match anything

[Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to add something to make clean that will move all *~ files 
into a .backups dir. The problem is that I don't want make to return an 
error if I run make clean when there are no ~ files. Currently I have:

mkdir -p .backups
if [ "`echo *~`" != "*~" ]; then mv -f *~ .backups ; fi

Which does work, but it's a bit cumbersome. Is there a better way
of doing it?

Thanks
Simon

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