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Sniffnoy on Feb 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

...OK, I have to ask. Why would you name a file "~" in the first place?

gleenn on Feb 28, 2011 [–]

You missed the part where they said they were on a windows box trying to copy a file to their home directory. Instead of copying the file to the home directory, it made a file called ~.

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