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OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Should be
\~in most shells, certainly bash. Usemkdirandrmdirwhen messing around to prevent accidents.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