From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: deleting backup files dependant on their age Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:01:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1v08du4.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <874mgcebxk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448322743 29568 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2015 23:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 24 00:52:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a10u0-0005I9-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:52:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a10u1-0000Xm-3O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a10tr-0000XW-0u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:52:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a10tm-0001s3-Mk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a10tm-0001rK-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:51:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a10tc-0004cH-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:51:44 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:51:44 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:51:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+NLtwZ1aw6EwAa9ZB7V3juIh8bs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108206 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > I'm revisiting the age-old problem of deleting > backup files, where currently I have 1,383 which is > increasing day-by-day. OK, first, by "backups", you mean files like this~, right? Second, are you sure 1383 files is a problem? As an example, I have 887 mails (not backups) in a folder and according to du -sh they total 89M. So it is not a lot. Third, you can use the -I option of ls(1) if you just don't want to see them. Fourth, if you would consider no backups at all, try this: (setq make-backup-files nil) (setq auto-save-list-file-prefix nil) > I have this in my ... but its failing to work, saying this - > Symbol's value as variable is void: > ~/.emacs.d/backups You probably need to make that a string, i.e. "~/.emacs.d/backups". > How then can I set up auto-delete backup files for > older than 14 days which are held in > "~/.emacs.d/backups" please? You can also do this in the shell with find(1) but perhaps you want do try the Emacs solution first. Otherwise it would probably be just as doable with 'find'. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573