Script to delete all something.txt~ file from a directory

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find

FIND(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   FIND(1)

NAME

       find - find files

SYNOPSIS

       find pathname-list  expression

DESCRIPTION

       Find  recursively  descends the directory hierarchy for each pathname in the pathname-list (i.e., one or more pathnames) seeking files that
       match a boolean expression written in the primaries given below.  In the descriptions, the argument n is used as a decimal integer where +n
       means more than n, -n means less than n and n means exactly n.

       -name filename
		 True  if the filename argument matches the current file name.	Normal Shell argument syntax may be used if escaped (watch out for
		 `[', `?' and `*').

       -perm onum
		 True if the file permission flags exactly match the octal number onum (see chmod(1)).	If onum is prefixed by a minus sign,  more
		 flag bits (017777, see stat(2)) become significant and the flags are compared: (flags&onum)==onum.

       -type c	 True  if  the	type  of the file is c, where c is b, c, d or f for block special file, character special file, directory or plain
		 file.

       -links n  True if the file has n links.

       -user uname
		 True if the file belongs to the user uname (login name or numeric user ID).

       -group gname
		 True if the file belongs to group gname (group name or numeric group ID).

       -size n	 True if the file is n blocks long (512 bytes per block).

       -inum n	 True if the file has inode number n.

       -atime n  True if the file has been accessed in n days.

       -mtime n  True if the file has been modified in n days.

       -exec command
		 True if the executed command returns a zero value as exit status.  The end of the command must be punctuated by an escaped  semi-
		 colon.  A command argument `{}' is replaced by the current pathname.

       -ok command
		 Like  -exec  except that the generated command is written on the standard output, then the standard input is read and the command
		 executed only upon response y.

       -print	 Always true; causes the current pathname to be printed.

       -newer file
		 True if the current file has been modified more recently than the argument file.

       The primaries may be combined using the following operators (in order of decreasing precedence):

       1)  A parenthesized group of primaries and operators (parentheses are special to the Shell and must be escaped).

       2)  The negation of a primary (`!' is the unary not operator).

       3)  Concatenation of primaries (the and operation is implied by the juxtaposition of two primaries).

       4)  Alternation of primaries (`-o' is the or operator).

EXAMPLE

       To remove all files named `a.out' or `*.o' that have not been accessed for a week:

	 find / ( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' ) -atime +7 -exec rm {} ;

FILES

       /etc/passwd
       /etc/group

SEE ALSO

       sh(1), test(1), filsys(5)

BUGS

       The syntax is painful.

																	   FIND(1)

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