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Tilde in /usr/local/share/applications~?

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I’m creating shortcuts for Syncthing, when I noticed this: Is there supposed to be a “~” after the folder name?

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Vincent@feddit.nl
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There’s a convention to append a tilde to files/folders that are backups, so presumably some app at some point made a copy of /usr/local/share/applications, and then the original one got deleted?

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That’s odd. I’ll delete it since it’s empty and create a new one called just “applications”. I tried having both yesterday, but it didn’t work even though I put the Syncthing .desktop files inside and restarted my PC.

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billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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This isn’t DOS and probably isn’t a FAT filesystem. Tilde isn’t a wildcard in linux

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LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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Why would it even be there? This is a fresh install of Zorin OS. I’ll just change it.

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