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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Avoid creating temporary files on editing a file in Ubuntu Post 302145748 by porter on Thursday 15th of November 2007 04:54:47 AM
Old 11-15-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by royalibrahim
For eg: if I am editing a file called "sip.c", automatically a temporary (bkup) file is getting created with the name "sip.c~".
That's an editor/application thing, not really an operating system thing.

What editor are you using?
 

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SIP(1)                                                        General Commands Manual                                                       SIP(1)

NAME
sip - generates C++/Python bindings SYNOPSIS
sip [-h] [-V] [-a file] [-c dir] [-d file] [-e] [-g] [-I dir] [-j #] [-k] [-m file] [-o] [-p module] [-P] [-r] [-s suffix] [-t tag] [-w] [-x feature] [-z file] [file] DESCRIPTION
sip takes a set of specification files and generates C++ code, documentation and build files. The format of the needed specification file is similar to a C++ header. sip includes run-time support for the generated code. OPTIONS
-h Show summary of options. -V Display the sip version number -a file The name of the QScintilla API file. If not indicated, it will not be generated. -b file The name of the build file. If not indicated, it will not be generated. -c dir The name of the directory where generated source file will be put. If not indicated, no code will be generated. -d file The name of the documentation file. If not indicated, no documentation will be generated. -e Enable support for exceptions. Disabled by default. -g Always release and reaquire the GIL. -I dir Directory where sip can search for included files. -j number Splits the generated code in number files (1 by default). This flag was added for parallel compilation on SMP machines. -m file The name of the XML export file. If not indicated, the file will not be generated. -p module Give the name of the consolidated module this module should be a part of. -P Enable the protected/public hack. -r Enable tracing on generated code. -s suffix The suffix used for generated C or C++ files (".c" or ".cpp" if none specified) -t tag The primary version to tag generate code for. You only can specify those defined with a %Timeline directive. If you don't specify one, sip will generate the latest available. -w Enable warning messages -x feature Disable a feature -z file The name of a file containing additional command line flags file The name of the file containing the specification. If you skip it, sip will expect to be fed by stdin. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina <rcardenes@debian.org> and Torsten Marek <shlomme@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 2010/02/02 SIP(1)
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