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Installer creates file called ~ in working directory

I have noticed a ~ file being created after running the Linux installer for Workstation 12.  This also appears to be occurring with Workstation 11.

Notice line 44.  What is causing this?  It is dangerous to delete, as it can delete your entire home directory.

This will delete the current user home dir.

rm -rf ~

This will delete only the "file" being created here.

rm "~"

Please advise.

  1. root@ubuntu:~#
  2. root@ubuntu:~#
  3. root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
  4. total 356M
  5. drwx------  2 root root 4.0K Mar  1 14:50 .
  6. drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar  1 09:43 ..
  7. -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.1K Feb 19  2014 .bashrc
  8. -rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 Feb 19  2014 .profile
  9. -rw-r--r--  1 root root 356M Mar  1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
  10. root@ubuntu:~#
  11. root@ubuntu:~#
  12. root@ubuntu:~# chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
  13. root@ubuntu:~#
  14. root@ubuntu:~#
  15. root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
  16. total 356M
  17. drwx------  2 root root 4.0K Mar  1 14:50 .
  18. drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar  1 09:43 ..
  19. -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.1K Feb 19  2014 .bashrc
  20. -rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 Feb 19  2014 .profile
  21. -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 356M Mar  1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
  22. root@ubuntu:~#
  23. root@ubuntu:~#
  24. root@ubuntu:~# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle --console --eulas-agreed --required --set-setting vmware-workstation serialNumber XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
  25. Extracting VMware Installer...done.
  26. Installing VMware VMX 12.1.0
  27.     Configuring...Traceback (most recent call last):
  28.   File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit
  29.     if self.shouldRollover(record):
  30.   File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover
  31.     msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record)
  32.   File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format
  33.     return fmt.format(record)
  34.   File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format
  35.     s = self._fmt % record.__dict__
  36. Installing VMware Workstation 12.1.0
  37.     Configuring...
  38. [######################################################################] 100%
  39. Installation was successful.
  40. root@ubuntu:~#
  41. root@ubuntu:~#
  42. root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
  43. total 356M
  44. -rw-------  1 root root 1.0K Mar  1 14:52 ~
  45. drwx------  4 root root 4.0K Mar  1 14:53 .
  46. drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar  1 09:43 ..
  47. -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.1K Feb 19  2014 .bashrc
  48. drwx------  3 root root 4.0K Mar  1 14:53 .config
  49. drwx------  2 root root 4.0K Mar  1 14:53 .gconf
  50. -rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 Feb 19  2014 .profile
  51. -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 356M Mar  1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
  52. root@ubuntu:~#
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