Linux Command Line Symbol ~/

[Bill Sullivan]

Hi Dan,

The tilde (~) is a shortcut to the current user's home directory. It's
a hard thing to search for.

I've always done well googling for command line stuff, but sometimes
it really is hard, like here or with, say, documentation for the
command "complete". :)

Best,
Bill Sullivan

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> What does the "~/" mean?  In my notes on connecting to an AWS instance I
> have the following command line:
>
> scp -r -i your file.pem ../../../var/www/application folder name
> ubuntu at IPAddr:~/
>
> The "~/" is pencilled in on my notes.  I don't know why I put it there or
> what it is supposed to do and I have not been able to find any explanation
> on-line.  I would appreciate any ideas any of you might have.
>
> Also, does anyone know of a good, searchable, on-line, Linux command line
> reference?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan H
>
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