Re: Removing junk .swp files

Mike, BPJ

On 5/1/13 3:11 PM, Mike Hume wrote:
> You could setup a tmp directory for where swp files are stores.
>
> set directory=~/.vim/tmp/swap
>
> If you have swp files littered about, run this command to recursively find and delete them:
>
> find . -type d -name .swp | xargs rm -rf

That "rm -rf" can be a bit destructive when run on a directory.

I suggest

find . -name "*.swp" -exec rm {} ";"

This won't check to see if the file is in use, so do it when vim isn't
running.

- George

>
> ~Mike
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 10:49 AM, BPJ <bpj@melroch.se> wrote:
>
>> Is there any easy/automatized way to remove junk (as in not associated with any file currently open in (g)vim) .swp files
>> in the current directory and its subdirectories?
>> A plugin perhaps?
>>
>> /bpj
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