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These backup files clutter up my screen when I'm trying to navigate.

How do I hide files ending in a tilde so ls doesn't show them and only ls -a does. That is, I want them to behave like files which are preceded by a period.

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Add

 alias ls='ls --hide="*~"'

to your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash.aliases or where ever you define your shell aliases.

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This works, but I lose the highlighting that ls does. How do I keep the highlighting? – user19192 Sep 9 '12 at 3:28
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Try alias ls='ls --hide="*~" --color=auto' – Florian Diesch Sep 9 '12 at 3:57
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You can set the files to be hidden. Use: ls --hide=*~.

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