On 2025-08-10 06:51:40 -0500, 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? > 2. what reference would answer a similar question? > [ NOTE BENE: The search may be more beneficial than the answer ]
Look for "tilde expansion" in the bash(1) man page. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
