Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:16:41 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weirdness with a directory named ~ Message-ID: <199912301916.LAA21648@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991230135850.28572D-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> from Kenny Drobnack at "Dec 30, 1999 02:10:42 pm"
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Kenny Drobnack wrote: > Anyway, the other day I had a directory I wanted to move to my > home directory. I did "mv dirname ~" Well, I didn't realize it till later, > but what it did was make a directory named ~ in the directory that I did What is your login shell? Read its manual page. [removing ~ story deleted] You need to escape the tilde character so that it isn't expanded by your shell. Try "rm -rf \~". -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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