Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 4) rm -rf .* I'm nowhere near that impressive, unfortunately. Once upon a time, I was trying to build some package (I forget which) from its source distribution. It was an GNU-y Autoconf kind of thing. I didn't want to install it globally at that point, just in my home directory. So I said $ ./configure --prefix=~ $ make $ make install So far, so good. Now try to run the thing. $ foo bash: foo: command not found Oh. Where's it gone? $ ls That's annoying. Bad shell. It's failed to expand `~', and just put everything in a directory called `~' in my build tree. Bugger. I don't want it there. $ rm -rf ~ I wonder why it's taking so lo... ^C^C^C^C -- [mdw] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html