Re: Removing junk .swp files

On 2013-05-08, Paul wrote:
> On Wednesday, 01 May, 2013 at 20:11:08 BST, 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
>
> I don't recommend this, because like George Dinwiddie says, it
> doesn't check to see if any swap files are in use, but this is a
> more efficient command:
>
> find ~ -type f -name \*.swp -delete

Also, not all swap files end in .swp. If Vim needs to create a swap
file and one ending in .swp already exists, Vim will use the
extension .swo for the new one and .swn after that. I think it just
continues backwards through the alphabet. So using something like

\*.sw[nop]

or even

\*.sw?

would be more thorough.

Regards,
Gary

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