How to delete swap file???

[MrPez]

Hi guys, first I'll point out that I am a complete newbie...

I've got a revo r3700 with 12.04 that I run xbmc on and I'm trying to fix the IP address on it so that I don't have to keep reconfiguring the remote.

I found some instructions and tried to follow them:


sudo vi /etc/network/interfacesI then added this to the file:

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.102
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1Somehow I then managed to close the file without saving and when I went in to check it made a swap file, whatever that is.

I then did it again and typed :wq to save it which seemed to work. Problem is when I try to go into the file I get a warning that a swap file with the name /etc/network/interfaces.swp has been detected.

The proper file is there and is right, but I can't seem to delete the swap. I've tried


rm -f ./etc/network/interfaces.swpas well as

rm ./etc/network/interfaces.swpand have tried both without the . in front of the filename. I don't get any warnings saying it hasn't worked, but I can still browse and see that the swap file hasn't been deleted. There are also 4 other files named interfaces with various extensions that I guess I have inadvertently created...

Please can someone tell me how to delete these extra files that I've created? With it the way it is when I switch it on I don't have any network connection at all!

[spjackson]

The proper file is there and is right, but I can't seem to delete the swap. I've tried


rm -f ./etc/network/interfaces.swpas well as

rm ./etc/network/interfaces.swpand have tried both without the . in front of the filename. I don't get any warnings saying it hasn't worked, but I can still browse and see that the swap file hasn't been deleted. There are also 4 other files named interfaces with various extensions that I guess I have inadvertently created...

Please can someone tell me how to delete these extra files that I've created? With it the way it is when I switch it on I don't have any network connection at all!


sudo rm /etc/network/.interfaces.swp
As for the other files, it depends what their names are. I'm guessing that


sudo rm /etc/network/interfaces.swp~
might deal with one of them. (This is a backup file created by vi). Generally, you should not remove files from /etc unless you know what they are.

[MrPez]

Thanks SPJackson, that worked for the swap file
The other files in question have extensions swk, swl, swm, swn, swo Sounds awfully like a sequence of my errors to me! Are they ok to delete?

[spjackson]

Thanks SPJackson, that worked for the swap file
The other files in question have extensions swk, swl, swm, swn, swo Sounds awfully like a sequence of my errors to me! Are they ok to delete?
I didn't know this before, but those files are created if you edit again and again while the swap file exists. See here (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/recover.html). So yes, these are safe to be removed in the same way.

[MrPez]

Thanks for all the help, all sorted now