Re: A funny little mistake
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> 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
Been there done that. type rm '/~' which should tell it to delete the file
~ in the / directory.
- -K
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