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Re:SSH tips and tricks by askvictor on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:35PM (#32491644)
That needs an enter first? That might explain why I've always found ~. to be so unreliable
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Re:SSH tips and tricks by IcePic on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:20AM (#32493282)
It is so that you don't quit every time you paste "foobar~.baz" through the terminal.
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Re:SSH tips and tricks by mi_lk on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @07:19AM (#32494732)
it's because the escape character is only recognized at the beginning of a line
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