On 8/10/25 7:00 AM, 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/".
2. what reference would answer a similar question?
There are probably plenty of places online which would explain it, but
the canonical place AFAIK is the bash man page. There is a specific
section entitled "Tilde Expansion".
OWLett with SHEEPish expression says Thanks
I regularly use manpages to lookup "bash commands" but didn't think of
going there for bash itself ;/
Reading that section shows that actual processing is more complicated,
but AFAIK I have never encountered any instance in which it would lead
the result to be inconsistent with the equivalency to $HOME.
