Is "~/" assumed to be a user's home directory

ColKurtz · 01-25-2005, 06:13 PM

I see references to ~/.(filename) from time to time. Does the tilda (~) refer to home directory? I'm trying to tweak mrxvt and there's a sample config file on the webpage that says to put the file in ~/.mrxvtrc (or ~/.Xdefaults).

What is ~/ ?

Thanks.

mjrich · 01-25-2005, 06:16 PM

Yes.

~ is equivalent to /home/foo, where foo is your account name. You can also usually use this in a shell, eg. cd ~/foo/bar.

Cheers,

mj

ColKurtz · 01-25-2005, 06:26 PM

muchas

Matir · 01-25-2005, 09:49 PM

Technically, most shells expand ~ to be an alias for $HOME. You can do:

Code:

$ export HOME=/var/mysql
$ cd ~
$ pwd
/var/mysql