Re: A funny little mistake
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 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
>
This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things
that even this won't work on. If you do get stuck you can try rm -i *.
This will try to delete EVERYTHING in the directory - but prompt for each
one, so you can say no to everything but the ~ file. (Alternately you
could move everything else out of the directory first).
Chris
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