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In linux terminal, I accidentally mistyped

sudo mv myfile.zip /~

My purpose was to move under the home folder but it was not there.

Although I tried to find it by both

sudo find / -name 'myfile.zip'

and

sudo locate myfile.zip

could not find it. Where it can b开发者_Python百科e?

Thanks in advance.

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You might be surprised to find a file named ~ right under /.

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It's called /~. That's a perfectly valid filename (remember, shell only expands ~ at the * beginning* of a path and you typed it in the middle, so the shell left it at that).

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You moved it to /~ --- it is at root and named ~.

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Your file is now no longer named myfile.zip, but ~. You should find it exactly where you told it to go, at: /~

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It will be under / and its name will be ~.

You'll be surprised that unlike Windows, Unix-like systems can take a lot of things very literally, you can even create a file with the name *.* if you quote properly. The system won't complain about it, and it will even work.