The tilde char in a filename

Stephen Allen freebsduk at rowyerboat.com
Sat Nov 11 11:26:54 GMT 2006


On a newly installed system, I found that global bash startup script has 
a tilde char at the end of the filename.

/etc/profile~

Is this for a reason, and what does tilde mean in this instance?

Thanks,
Steve :)




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