$HOME
instead of tilde ~
to expand in quotes SH-2088rm "~/Desktop/$filename"
rm "$HOME/Desktop/$filename"
Tilde does not expand to the user's home directory when it's single or double-quoted. Use double quotes and $HOME
instead.
Alternatively, the ~/
can be left unquoted, as in rm ~/"Desktop/$filename"
.
If you don't want the tilde to be expanded, you can ignore this issue.