Re: How does bash interpret tilde character?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 8/10/25 7:00 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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".

OWLett with SHEEPish expression says Thanks
I regularly use manpages to lookup "bash commands" but didn't think of 
going there for bash itself ;/


> 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.