On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> > > " mv thefile.tar.gz /~ ". Now I have a 800k file named ~ on / . I
> > > tried to "mv ~ normalfilename" and this does create a normal file, but
> > > the ~ file still exists. If I try to "rm ~ " the system thinks I want
> > > to delete my home directory.
> >
> > prefacing the '~' with a backslash ('\') ought to do the trick.
> > the backslash is the shell's delimiting character, and the shell will not
> > try to expand anything directly after a backslash.
> > so mv \~ newname
> >
>
> This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things
> that even this won't work on. If you do get stuck you can try rm -i *.
> This will try to delete EVERYTHING in the directory - but prompt for each
> one, so you can say no to everything but the ~ file. (Alternately you
> could move everything else out of the directory first).
>
> Chris
>
I've also found that midnight commander will often remove funny files.
Anthony
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