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 '~'
>
>
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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