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Simon Williams wrote: > 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 > > can you just use ls -al *~ instead of echo? To search for the existence of ~ Or even tar all *~ up then move. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html