Tip: Delete Leftover Files

Description: After you have left XEmacs. You'll notice some temporary files. (Running ls -ltr, shows them.)

XEmacs style is as such, after editing sample.txt, there might be a #sample.txt# file.

Question: How do I delete this file?

Answer 1: rm -iv \#samp*, the press "y" (for yes) to confirm.
Why the backslash-#? Because pound symbols are metacharacters in the bash shell.

Answer 2: Using a GUI file manager, such a konqueror or nautilus. Left click on the file, get the popup menu to appear, select the delete (or move to trash) menu option, and select it. Probably, a confirm to really do this, will occur.

Platform: Linux
Level: Basic
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