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I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and new to Ubuntu. Please let me know what I did wrong: In my system a sources.list~ file and also a trusted.gpg~ file was generated.

Frequently I forget to backup the original copies of important system files I’m messing around with. Is there any way to have the system automatically copy a file that I edit, if e.g. it’s under /...

In home directory ls shows the following: But let's look what is in Nautilus. I refreshed Nautilus many times. rm 1.1.c returns a error there is no such file in directory. What's wrong?

When i create a file named a.cpp a new extra file a.cpp~ created automatically in my ubuntu. I know this is swap file . Why this file is created? Use of this file?

Whenever I made changes in my text files, automatically another file with the same name plus a '~' gets created. Why does this happen? How can I prevent these files from getting auto-created? These ...

HEre image attached of one example. index.html and index.html~ appears everytime I finish editing the file. But it does not have any content and it does not go away unless I delete it, but, I am ...

Edit: I have mistaken dropbox for gedit's default backup feature, see below. As the title says when I create a file in any dropbox synchronized folder it creates an unhidden (no . prefix) duplicate ...

Based on this Question I would like to know if it would be possible (and if so how) to save these auto-saved backup files into a specific or different folder. As I'm using git as a revision control ...

I created a file named xxx on my Desktop and then I (re)moved it using terminal. Now when I execute ls on Desktop I see a file named xxx~ that is not visible at GUI. What does it mean?

I have a folder containing a repository I am working on. In my repo, I have a file called README.md, as most repos do. However, randomly, Ubuntu creates a file called README.md~, which gets pushed up ...

I have stored a text as .txt while saving it in Gedit in Ubuntu 14.04. But after viewing that folder, which i have stored will have two files with that name but with 'Tilde Symbol' '~' for an ...

Why does Ubuntu create a file ending in ~ for every file I create with a text editor ? Creating a file with a text editor like GNU Emacs, say myfile, another file called myfile~ is also created. Why ...

This old bug affects me severely, I say old bug because it is very well documented in the following link: Bug report This bug results in two things: My on-board networking doesn't work, and trying ...

Need help to understand the output of ls -l command. I created one file testa in my home directory. When I run the ls -l command it shows up with two similar names. What does the symbol (~) mean with ...

So in noticed every time I edit a text file with gedit, i get a hidden file in this directory with the same name except in the end this file has this symbol ~ So why does the system or gedit creates ...