GNU bug report logs - #30724
eshell: escaped tilde is not treated as such

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko <at> riseup.net>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 04:57:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: eshell: escaped tilde is not treated as such
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 04:30:21 +0000

In M-x eshell (do not run):

  $ touch \~
  $ ls
  ~
  $ rm \~
  rm: cannot remove '~': Is a directory

I.e. it tried to remove home directory. I've found this by
accidentially wiping my home directory, but no worry, I've restored a
btrfs snapshot that was made several minutes before that.

GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.26)
 of 2018-02-25
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 309 days ago.

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