delete ~ directory

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Apr 20 01:25:22 UTC 2004



d l wrote:

>As far as i know if u use brace to qoute a char/string,
>bash will not tries to expand/subsitute it.
>
>so in your case 
>
>rm -rf '~'
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single quotes such as '~' does not get expanded,
double quotes "~" still gets expanded.

I suggest those interested try reading /Linux in a Nutshell/ from
O'Reilly to get familiar with the way the shell expands metacharacters.

>should work
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