delete ~ directory

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb Martin Stone um 17:09:

> No.  "rm -rf -- ~" absolutely WILL expand the ~ and remove your home directory! 
>   The expansion of "~" is done by bash, not the rm command.  The -- only tells 
> rm not to treat what follows as an option; it does not tell bash not to expand 
> "~".  I would hope that you would test before posting such inaccurate and 
> dangerous advice.

Hm, sorry! I will urgently test the case. Thank you for the response.

Alexander


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