dir ~

[Ean Kingston]

> On 28 fév 2005, Rob wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to
>> that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried
>> to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is
>> there a way to delete this
>> ~ dir?

I haven't seen the painfully obvious option yet so you might consider it:

rm '~'

NOTE the quote marks. They will prevent shell expansion.

>
> Dunno if my answer got lost but a solution I would suggest is to
> try a combination of ls/find/rm
>
> My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i
> and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find
> command to delete the item.
>
> This is usually how I deal with such entries.
>
> Hope that helps.
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>
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