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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Should be \~ in most shells, certainly bash. Use mkdir and rmdir when messing around to prevent accidents.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Saw this post this morning and was thinking about how to delete it ( while falling back asleep ). Escaping the ~, ofc that'd work! I feel so stupid now haha

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