Subj : Re: CLI Linux help, directories and rm -r..
To   : deon
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Dec 02 2021 17:32:06

 Me>  de> OK, I would do this (avoid rm -r).
 Me>  de> 
 Me>  de> You should be able to change into that directory with cd \~ (when you
 Me>  de> are in it's parent).
 Me>  de> 
 Me>  de> ls -al (make sure its empty, and do what you need to do to make it
 Me>  de> empty.)
 Me>  de> 
 Me>  de> "cd" to the parent
 Me>  de> rmdir \~ (if it fails it wont below up your home directory :)
 Me> 
 Me> Yes, what he said above.
 Me> Remember that ~ is a reserved alias for home, but if you managed to make
 Me> a folder with that char, you would need to escape it, like you would for
 Me> other special chars, like - for example.
 Me> 
 Me> The other way you could do it, seeing as you have a desktop environment
 Me> on that pi (right?) is just run nautilus to the parent directory and
 Me> then just select and delete that folder as you would in the file manager
 Me> for any other directory, if that makes it feel safer.
 
Thanks, my Linux friends who know more than me. :P Listen, while I'm not the 
best in bash, I *know* this issue would give some other MORE-green sysOps 
issue... :P 

OK; first, mL- I don't have a DE on my BBS box, so thats out - however I did 
read 0zZ-U's reply about using Midnight Commander... and LOL; I might just do 
that. 

HOWEVER, I can follow deons instructions to the tee - and it seems that both of 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































you have noted that it WILL work correctly; I just don't wanna mess around with 














































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































~ anything... and p00f my /home/pi. 

I think I'll do the deon steps; but if I get scared the MC option is a dummies 
idea that I could also utilize here... hmmm. 

I GOT IT; I'm gonna try deon's suggestion on my BACKUP directory - but... 
Paulie, you idiot - that won't save you from any ~ directory erasing issues. 
UGH. While I know I can trust deon (and mLs) instructions, I'm gonna go 0zZ-U 
here and install MC. :P 

Damn nix.



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