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Subject: Re: Help on file starting with a '~'...
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jman@ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>
>Could some unix gurus out there help me in removing a file which the
>name starts with a '~', such as ~filename?  Thanks a million!!!


Read The FAQ and Manual.



(But if you really must know, "rm \~filename" works from csh,
 "rm ~filename" works from the Bourne shell.)


--
   It would really be scary if we had a bunch of "Joe English"'s running 
         around insulting people and starting riots and the like.
                                     -- "Roger" "Rabbit"

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