Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:57:35 -0600 (CST) From: Alec Kloss <ajk@paw-in-eye.net> To: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weirdness with a directory named ~ Message-ID: <199912301957.NAA03319@D2SI.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991230135850.28572D-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> from Kenny Drobnack at "Dec 30, 1999 2:10:42 pm"
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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 answered your own question. Tildes at the beginning of pathnames are relative to a home directory. Tildes elsewhere in a path are not. So, to remove a directory named ~, use rmdir ./~ as below: %mkdir ./~ %ls -ld ./~ drwxr-xr-x 2 ajk wheel 512 Dec 30 13:56 ./~ %rmdir ~ rmdir: /home/alec: Permission denied %rmdir ./~ % To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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