Steam chat, the thing you use while playing games, mangles your messages for you... It's especially interesting when sending shell commands.
~/.ssh/config
becomeshttp://ssh/config
$HOME/.ssh/config
becomeshttp://HOME/.ssh/config
${HOME}/.ssh/config
becomeshttp://HOME}/.ssh/config
It seems like some space-delimited character sequences containing /
get http://
added at the start,
after all non-alphanumeric gets removed from the start.
Just avoid /
.
In bash, you can use echo -en
, e.g.:
$ nano "$HOME$(echo -en \\x2F).ssh$(echo -en \\x2F)config"
for$ nano ~/.ssh/config
.