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/`

"~" tilde is the convection for home directory , but that part show the present working directory

tilde

"~" is called a tilde in English.

Yes it is lol

ok Tilde

is it possible to customize it to another location?

is it possible to customize it to another location?

Yes, that would be called changing your home directory which is certainly possible, but not really recommended as there can be a lot of config and settings in your current home directory to manually copy over.

"~" is called a tilde in English.

Thanks

so, after reading the answer and some of the comments, i think ~ is just another name for home (which is actually your username folder).
if you see only ~ it means you're currently inside your home directory.
if you see another name like ~/Downloads it means you're in that folder inside your home

Home dir