drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) (01/06/87)
ramsey@PURDUE.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes: > I would like to create a directory /usr/ramsey/.gnubackup and have > gnu emacs store all tilde and #*# files there. This has been followed by a lot of theological discussion about backups. Well, I can't solve this at run-time, but if you put the line find ~ '(' -name '#*' -o -name '*~' ')' -exec mv -f {} ~/.gnubackup ';' in your .logout file, then all your checkpoint and backup files will be moved into your .gnubackup directory. Of course, this won't happen until you log out, but that might be better -- the really current backups will be in the current directory, which is easy to get to if you mung something. One note: If you use numeric backup versions, this will probably screw up the version numbering. Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu