On 2025-08-10 08:00:15 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-08-10 at 07:51, 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? > > In the typical context and usage, "~/" can AFAIK be treated as exactly > equivalent to "$HOME/".
If you mean with the quotes: vinc17@qaa:~$ echo "$HOME/" /home/vinc17/ vinc17@qaa:~$ echo "~/" ~/ And without the quotes, $HOME is not recommended, in case the home directory contains spaces. AFAIK, ~/ (without quotes) is equivalent to "$HOME/" (with quotes). -- 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)
