How to delete the .swp files when working remotely

Question

I opened a file in vi, but unfortunately while changing it the terminal crashed. Now when I Try to open the same file again in a new session it displays the following message

E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name ".searchRefineVertTabs.jsp.swp"
          owned by: nextag   dated: Tue Mar  5 03:30:12 2013
         file name: ~nt/deploy/main/main.build.3616.BR_PS_1109.2239/..../searchRefineVertTabs.jsp
          modified: YES
         user name: nextag   host name: li1
        process ID: 9241
While opening file "searchRefineVertTabs.jsp"
             dated: Tue Mar  5 03:35:51 2013
      NEWER than swap file!

(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
    If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
    different instances of the same file when making changes.
    Quit, or continue with caution.

(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
    If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r searchRefineVertTabs.jsp"
    to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
    If you did this already, delete the swap file ".searchRefineVertTabs.jsp.swp"
    to avoid this message.

I want to know how can i delete this .swp file. I couldn't find it on the path filepath/...../outpdir1`

Solution

During that alert you can press D . Or else have a look in your current directory in your local machine.

Edit:You can also search for the file with:

find | grep ".searchRefineVertTabs.jsp.swp"

Comments

[Vipin Verma]

yes i checked that, and that is what i mentioned in the last line

[Mostafa Shahverdy]

yeah, but with some configurations .swp file is stored localy

[Vipin Verma]

can you please elaborate. Tried using D it didn't work

[Vipin Verma]

the file was at the following path: ./.searchRefineVertTabs.jsp.swp so used rm ./.searchRefineVertTabs.jsp.swp