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From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:45PM -0000, 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 about rm dir/~ ?