On 2025-08-10 at 07:51, Richard Owlett wrote: > About 5 years ago the response I got was: > >> Use the 'history' command, or 'cat ~/.bash_history'. > > I have two questions: > 1. in context, what does " ~/ " mean? In the typical context and usage, "~/" can AFAIK be treated as exactly equivalent to "$HOME/". > 2. what reference would answer a similar question? There are probably plenty of places online which would explain it, but the canonical place AFAIK is the bash man page. There is a specific section entitled "Tilde Expansion". Reading that section shows that actual processing is more complicated, but AFAIK I have never encountered any instance in which it would lead the result to be inconsistent with the equivalency to $HOME. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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