delete ~ directory

[Jeff Vian]

Adam Voigt wrote:

>You need to do an escape, for example:
>
>"vi ~"
>
>Will tell you your trying to open a directory, and infact list the
>contents, but this:
>
>"vi \~"
>
>Will create a new file, called ~, so logically, you could use:
>
>"rm -rf \~"
>  
>
ALL of the discussion on how to delete this directory has centered on 
using relative pathnames to achieve the task.

A simple and foolproof command would use the full pathname such as
    "rm -rf /home/<username>/~"    and you never have to worry about the 
shell expansion of a single "~" character.  :-)

This method takes the shell expansion out of the picture and the path is 
absolute and unambiguous.