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Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:01:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
> I'm revisiting the age-old problem of deleting
> backup files, where currently I have 1,383 which is
> increasing day-by-day.
OK, first, by "backups", you mean files like
this~, right?
Second, are you sure 1383 files is a problem? As an
example, I have 887 mails (not backups) in a folder
and according to
du -sh
they total 89M. So it is not a lot.
Third, you can use the -I option of ls(1) if you just
don't want to see them.
Fourth, if you would consider no backups at all, try
this:
(setq make-backup-files nil)
(setq auto-save-list-file-prefix nil)
> I have this in my ... but its failing to work, saying this -
> Symbol's value as variable is void:
> ~/.emacs.d/backups
You probably need to make that a string, i.e.
"~/.emacs.d/backups".
> How then can I set up auto-delete backup files for
> older than 14 days which are held in
> "~/.emacs.d/backups" please?
You can also do this in the shell with find(1) but
perhaps you want do try the Emacs solution first.
Otherwise it would probably be just as doable
with 'find'.
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