Help on file starting with a '~'...
A mutable language
jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu
Fri Feb 22 14:46:49 AEST 1991
jman at ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>
>Could some unix gurus out there help me in removing a file which the
>name starts with a '~', such as ~filename? Thanks a million!!!
Read The FAQ and Manual.
(But if you really must know, "rm \~filename" works from csh,
"rm ~filename" works from the Bourne shell.)
--
It would really be scary if we had a bunch of "Joe English"'s running
around insulting people and starting riots and the like.
-- "Roger" "Rabbit"
jeenglis at alcor.usc.edu // ignore this posting
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