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Originally Posted by delboy
richardpl
I thought ~ meant Home directory,are you saying it means symbolic link if so what is the symbol for Home directory.
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Read handbook section: UNIX Basics again. ~/ mean home directory, ~ is just - tilde.
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Originally Posted by delboy
And if all the tildes in midnight commander are symbolic links,is it o/k to delete them.
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Sybolic links (installded by system) are not for deletion - you can risk malfunction of some old programs ... or programs for which they are created. Symoblic links with Hard links are very usefull UNIX features ....