search for files and delete from the whole system file
If you create a file or just open a file with some programs like gedit, it will make auto save files named like this file~
. For example if i do this gedit file.txt
then when i close the file i can find two files file.txt
and file.txt~
.
What i want to do is to search the "/
" whole file system for these files and then delete them.
Note that those files could be other things not just text files.Thanks foe helping
sudo find / ... ...
[not recommended] to adapt the answer in the link to suit your need.. but I don't think you need to do this, the system config file-backups won't take much space, and they could prove useful.. instead you can just do this for user-home directoriesfind $HOME ... ...