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I've done exactly this, and it worked.
But still, my heart was beating like fuck when I deleted it. -
tokumei21376y@RantSomeWhere ~ is a valid character in file names, the popular shells like bash/zsh expand that to the contents of $HOME before making process calls, it has no meaning at the low level.
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shaji12496yjust do rm ./~
Be really really REALLY ducking careful that you don't mistype anything though 😊 -
Isn't there a flag for rm that asks for confirmation? An interactive mode or something?
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@beegC0de by default rm is an alias for interactive shell mode, at least in most distributions.
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Can't remember the flag, but rm has a flag to print what it's going to delete, instead of deleting it
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mishaor17916yjust ls ~ and check if your stuff is safe
then ls ./~ (this will list the contents of the offending folder)
then rm -r ./~
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Once, i accidentally created a directory, called '~'.
I were this afraid, of deleting something.
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