Subj : CLI Linux help, directories and rm -r..
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Dec 01 2021 14:12:07

OK; I got into a small pickle. I set a new file area, in Mystic, to 
'~/files/userromadds'. For some reason, what Mystic did in this situation is 
add a sub-directory in my ~/mystic (main bbs) directory named '~'. Inside of 
that /home/pi/mystic/'~' directory was the /files/userromadds folder, and it 
contained all the files I had added to that file area... 

Ok, first things first; I went in and changes the file area to the correct 
/home/pi/files/userromadds, and moved THAT /userromadds sib-directory on over 
to my /home/pi/files where it should have been the whole time... OK. 

Well, now I want to erase that '~' directory from my ~/mystic folder. You can 
see the issue... if I just navigatge to ~/mystic and type:

rm -r ~ , poof goes my system. I think if I type:

rm -r '~' , poof goes my system. 

The following is copied right from my terminal:

pi@bbs:~ $ cd '/home/pi/mystic/~'
pi@bbs:~/mystic/~ $ pwd
/home/pi/mystic/~
pi@bbs:~/mystic/~ $

So, I *think* a safe command to enter is:

rm -r '/home/pi/mystic/~'

The result that I want is to simply delete the /home/pi/mystic/'~' folder. (It 
shows up in quotes like that, the following is a snippet just for more info:

pi@bbs:~/mystic $ ls -all
total 6548
drwxr-xr-x 35 pi pi    4096 Nov  4 04:08  .
drwxr-xr-x 45 pi pi    4096 Dec  1 13:58  ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi    4096 Dec  1 13:55 '~'
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi   26066 Jan  1  2021  ad_test.ini
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi pi    4156 Oct 17 17:02  advert.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi    7984 Aug  5  2020  ans2mbbs.exe
drwxr-xr-x  5 pi pi    4096 Apr 22  2021  ansi
(cut)

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Anyway, sorry for the long post - but can anyone help me out? I found this 
while doing a backup, and having my tar end up trying to backup my ENTIRE drive 















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































because of the ~/ naming BS... so I need to both delete that directory in my 
Mystic directory and my mystic backup directory... ANYWAY, all boils down to:

rm -r '/home/pi/mystic/~'

Is that the correct syntax to ONLY erase /home/pi/mystic/~ and NOT ~/?

Thanks rockstars.



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