I'm a beginner to using bash on OSX, and I somehow created a ~ dir in a project subfolder. (It appears as a directory, rather than a symlink.)

Is there a safe way to get rid of this ~ directory instance without bash expanding the tilde wiping my local user directory?

This is a really goofy question, but it would be a huge help to figure out how to deal with this.

Solution:

I ended up using rm -rfi ./\~, which worked safely.

Thanks, everyone!