A funny little mistake

["Thomas J. Malloy" <tmalloy@escape.com>]

	I was moving a file and intended to type " mv thefile.tar.gz  ~/ "   so 
    that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I  typed 
  " mv thefile.tar.gz  /~ ".  Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / .  I 
tried to  "mv ~  normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but 
the ~ file still exists.  If I try  to "rm ~ "  the system thinks I want 
to delete my home directory. 
Ok now that everyone is finished laughing, what do I do? Will I ever be 
able to remove this silly ~ file.  As always thank you for any help

Tom


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