Re: A funny little mistake
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> " 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.
prefacing the '~' with a backslash ('\') ought to do the trick.
the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
so mv \~ newname
7~he 7~hought /|ssassin
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