Re: weirdness with a directory named ~

1999-12-30 Thread Alec Kloss
Kenny Drobnack said: > 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? 1) Don't crosspost. 2) You've essentially answe

Re: weirdness with a directory named ~

1999-12-30 Thread Steve Kargl
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. [r