Kenny Drobnack wrote:
>       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

What is your login shell?  Read its manual page.

[removing ~ story deleted]

You need to escape the tilde character so that it isn't
expanded by your shell.  Try "rm -rf \~".

-- 
Steve


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