Re: How does bash interpret tilde character?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 10:25 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> 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?
    2. what reference would answer a similar question?
       [ NOTE BENE: The search may be more beneficial than the answer ]

It's your home directory. I would think any bash reference would tell you so, but don't have one in front of me at the moment.

Patrick