-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNUMiNRsA5GylAiwdAQGNfwMAqeMuC7KkToIDujhnqsqdMsxUwPYODD5J PDYiLKhdh6Vt7+tJY+8hgP4ynylDWcr9ROVS7vNG3qG2goouppW5KDF7SeVOn9X1 wA5/EZgxliBNFriDiMmQVJHZVmcSPGD9 =Rq94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
