Oh no! 🤦♂️
Oh no! 🤦♂️
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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
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Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~
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A method not yet mentioned is by inode, (I've accidentally created filenames I didn't know how to escape at the time like
--or other command line flags/special characters)ls -liOnce you get the inode
find . -type f -inum $inode -delete -
Using Nautilus or Dolphin.
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True if these are installed, but if I'm on a server's command line they probably aren't.
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rm -rf "~" may work?
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No, but single quotes will.
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huh, I almost removed my entire home directory
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In case you are just testing it out, don't use
-rf
Your~directory is most probably empty, so userm -dinstead, to prevent all footguns in case you put the wrong character in the end.undefined
-d, --dir remove empty directoriesI feel safe doing
rm -d /.
I feel safe doingsudo rm -d /.Because it won't delete anything that has a file in it.
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Should be
\~in most shells, certainly bash. Usemkdirandrmdirwhen messing around to prevent accidents.-
Saw this post this morning and was thinking about how to delete it ( while falling back asleep ). Escaping the ~, ofc that'd work! I feel so stupid now haha
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rmdir ./~ -
prefix with path, and/or quotation
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