Swap file

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:09 -0800, Bret Stern wrote:
> Perhaps the wrong place for this post.
> 
> How/where do I remove a swap file?
> 
> A network error occurred during a remote login
> while vi (editing) a perl script.

Oh, THAT kind of swap file.  You can use "vi -r name-of-file" to recover
the broken edit, or look for a file named ".name-of-file.swp" in the
same directory where you launched "vi" from originally and delete it.

Note that you'll need to use "ls -a" to see files that start with a
dot.

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