Variable: dired-garbage-files-regexp

dired-garbage-files-regexp is a customizable variable defined in dired.el.gz.

Value

"\\(?:\\.\\(?:aux\\|bak\\|dvi\\|log\\|orig\\|rej\\|toc\\)\\)\\'"

Documentation

Regular expression to match "garbage" files for dired-flag-garbage-files.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defcustom dired-garbage-files-regexp
  ;; `log' here is dubious, since it's typically used for useful log
  ;; files, not just TeX stuff.  -- fx
  (concat (regexp-opt
	   '(".log" ".toc" ".dvi" ".bak" ".orig" ".rej" ".aux"))
	  "\\'")
  "Regular expression to match \"garbage\" files for `dired-flag-garbage-files'."
  :type 'regexp
  :group 'dired)