A person who knows nearly nothing about Linux sent me a tar file... see what I got with that file and keep in mind the following notes:
swp files - if you're using vim, for instance, and have swap files in the directory, you might want to close vim before taring the directory...
a :w file - always save... but please do it only once!!! writing :w :w doesn't make it better!! :-) (ok, this could have happened to anyone, but be warned :-) )
a ~ file - ... WFT?
Re:tilde files
cog on 2004-06-29T03:30:05
I know that, but the weird thing is that the filename is just a plain tilde... could it be that vim was opened without any arguments? but then again, that would result in a.swp file, right? Just ~ ... nothing more... Re:tilde files
Limbic Region on 2004-06-29T12:28:05
Actually this happens to me quite a bit. Remember that ~ is the shortcut to your home directory so:w ~/blah.foo
will write to blah.foo in your home directory.
Now if you type as fast as I do you pinky tends to hover over the enter key and not over the;
