Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:18 pm, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:33, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i > > and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find > > command to delete the item. >

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:33, Xavier Maillard wrote: > My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i > and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find > command to delete the item. Ouch. "rm -- fileWithWeirdName" is usually a lot easier. For example, if you creat

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
> On 28 fév 2005, Rob wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to >> that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried >> to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is >> there a way to delete this >> ~ dir? I haven't seen the pa

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Xavier Maillard
On 28 fév 2005, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to > that it takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried > to delete the directory and it started deleting roots home. Is > there a way to delete this > ~ dir? Dunno if my answer got lost but

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:45PM -, Rob typed: > Hi, > > I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to that it > takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried to delete the > directory and it started deleting roots home. Is there a way to delete this > ~ dir? How

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:45PM -, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to that it > takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried to delete the > directory and it started deleting roots home. Is there a way to delete this > ~ dir? Can