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      1 # Spooky shell expansions
      2 
      3 *Let me tell you a story to chill the bones*  
      4 *One that happened to me long time ago*
      5 
      6 *It was a dark and cold night*  
      7 *Plague spreading outside*  
      8 
      9 *In the summer of '20*  
     10 *I was hacking alone*  
     11 *A little program I wanted to install*  
     12 *Not in `/usr/local`, but in my `$HOME`*
     13 
     14 *Young and foolish I was*  
     15 *As I changed the Makefile*  
     16 *`PREFIX = ~/.local`*  
     17 *And then `make` I typed*
     18 
     19 *That did not work, of course*  
     20 *And I soon realized*  
     21 *A new folder named `~`*  
     22 *Had shown up in my `$HOME`*
     23 
     24 *"How foolish I was" - I thought*  
     25 *"That must not work,*  
     26 *A Makefile won't expand*  
     27 *As a shell script sure does"*
     28 
     29 *A folder named `~`*  
     30 *When left alone,*  
     31 *Is no reason to fear*  
     32 *Does no harm at all*  
     33 
     34 *But care must be taken*  
     35 *And alas, I did not*  
     36 *Soon to learn the hard way*  
     37 *What a `~` gives, a `~` takes away*
     38 
     39 *"Let this be undone!" I exclaimed*
     40 
     41 *As I typed*
     42 
     43 *Four little bytes*  
     44 
     45 ```
     46 $ rm ~
     47 ```