On Wednesday 13 October 2004 07:17, you wrote:
> If the directory is actually called .autosave (note the
> dot prefix), did you experiment with emacs or xemacs
> one time? Both will create that directory.

No, I have never used emacs, and the directory name 
is 'autosave' with no dot prefix. 

> If it's empty, it's likely you can remove the directory

Done.  I'll watch to see if it reappears ;)) 

>   Alan> Do you have the need to be extra careful about
>   Alan> disk space? Why do you care about these empty
>   Alan> subdirectories?
>
> It's more a question of neatness, not disk space. 
> I despise directory clutter and want to know what every
> item is in my my home directory. ls -A | wc presently
> produces 145 items for me, and I check the directory
> every couple of days and meticulously rip out stuff I
> don't need.

I agree. That was my point, also. I dislike clutter and also bloat. 
Curiously, ls -A | wc on my system yields 70 and ls -a | wc yields 72. 

I wonder why I get different results from ls -A and ls -a ? 
Is there an efficient syntax to string commands so I could do a 'diff' 
on these two listings (without listing each to a file to compare files) 
to see what the two additional files are? 

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