Add Another Entry to the UNIX Haters' Handbook

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I was using the command line to quickly build out a file hierarchy. I wrote something that looked basically like: mkdir -p "~/dir/a b/c d" I meant for dir to be in my home directory. I should have put the ~/ outside the doublequotes. Hence, it actually ended up creating a directory called ~. I thought, "Well that was dumb. Let me delete that and...