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From: rich@CYGNUS.COM (K. Richard Pixley)
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Subject: backup files to a specific place POSSIBLE?
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No, but I have a small shell script that might help.  I use it
regularly.

#!/bin/sh

find . -name \*~ -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name \#\* -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name core -print -exec rm -rf {} \;

#eof