pico Primer for Competitors - Shell Chapter - Got Shell? Section

Answer 3

Q.3: What does `~` mean?

A.3: The shell is parked in Q0h313th's home directory which can be accessed by `~` on the computer called `pico-2019-shell1`

Note: the full path for `~` can be expanded to `/home/Q0h313th/`

@DonatienNtezy you can consider that as a shortcut to "home" directory. No matter which directory you are in, instead of traversing full path front and back, you can just give ~ to come directly to /home/Q0h313th/ as the author syreal17 mentioned.

is "~" the same as directory path ?

no. it is only for home/ path. directory path will differ, based on how "in-depth" you are in the folder hierarchical structure.

"~" mean is a directory Parth that can take you back to your home list or director Parth that have used/open

So "~" is the equivalent to home directory. Therefore, cd ~ should bring you back to the /home/Q0h313th/ directories?

Yes, the following 2 command produce the same result, bringing you to your home directory
cd
cd ~

~ it is called tildi it used as a shortcut form root/home directories

~ is called a tilde.
It's equivalent to the home directory: /home/Q0h313th/