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pico Primer for Competitors - Shell Chapter - Got Shell? Section
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| 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/` |
got it, it´s like a pipe, only for the home directory or this pipe could be setting for redirected to anothe directory ? thanks by the way.
It's different than a pipe. A pipe is an operator that connects the output of one program to the input of another.
Tilde is shorthand for the path to your home directory.
yeah.
and similarly "cd /" will take you to the root directory
"~" tilde is the convection for home directory , but that part show the present working directory
tilde
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