I have a question that I really don't know where to send, but since I'm
just subscribed to hackers....
Anyway, the other day I had a directory I wanted to move to my
home directory. I did "mv dirname ~" Well, I didn't realize it till later,
but what it did was make a directory named ~ in the directory that I did
that from! I had some problems deleting it. When I did "cd ~" from there,
it took me to my home directory, and when I did "rm -ir ~" it wanted to
delete files in my home directory. I ended up backing up my home
directory, doing an "rm -rf ~" which deleted my whole home directory. But
the ~ direcotry was still there! I tried rmdir ~, but it just said my home
directory didn't exist. Finally I deleted it from emacs, which hadn't
worked when my home directory existed.
My question is: why did it do this?!?!? Also, how hard would it be
to make things so it would look for ./~, then if that file/direcotry
doesn't exist, then check for a home directory? Or is that even a good
idea?
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