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Simple rm question, removing files that end with a tilde even if they start with a dot


Why doesn't this work? I want to remove .bashrc~ (ls has been aliased to include -AF):
hivemind@mindcooler ~
$ ls
.bash_history .bashrc* .emacs* .emacs.elc* .ssh/
.bash_profile* .bashrc~* .emacs.d/ .inputrc* coding/


hivemind@mindcooler ~
$ rm *~
rm: cannot remove `*~': No such file or directory

Obviously I can remove it by naming the file explicitly but I want to know why the lines I pasted above doesn't work so I learn something. :-)
rm has not been aliased


/ Eric Lilja


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