On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:21 -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > In /etc what is the difference between "group" and "group-"? > There are two types of backups. One is where the file name has a "~" appended to it's name. This is done by text editors like gedit in the Gnome desktop. The one you are asking about is where a "-" is appended to it's name and this is also a backup, but, I believe, this backup is created by the various User/Group Management tools, like useradd, groupadd, system-config-users, etc. HTH, --Rob
