Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:10:42 -0500 (EST) From: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: weirdness with a directory named ~ Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991230135850.28572D-100000@mission.mvnc.edu>
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I have a question that I really don't know where to send, but since I'm just subscribed to hackers.... 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 that from! I had some problems deleting it. When I did "cd ~" from there, it took me to my home directory, and when I did "rm -ir ~" it wanted to delete files in my home directory. I ended up backing up my home directory, doing an "rm -rf ~" which deleted my whole home directory. But the ~ direcotry was still there! I tried rmdir ~, but it just said my home directory didn't exist. Finally I deleted it from emacs, which hadn't worked when my home directory existed. 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? ----- In computer terms, hardware is the stuff you can hit with a baseball bat, and software is the stuff you can only swear at. -from a web page explaining what hardware, software, and firmware are ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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