Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Re: Removing junk .swp files

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

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