On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:23:13 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
> How do I get rid of the "~" so that the backups are file.1, file.2,
> etc.?
How about using the GNU rename in the dir holding your backup files:
$ rename "~" "" *~*
Cheers,
Ron.
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