Usually "~/" is shorthand for your home directory. i.e. ~/Downloads = /home/username/Downloads<div> Matthew L. Wolfgang Mobile: 214.282.0531 <a href="mailto:mattwolfgang@gmail.com" target="_blank">mattwolfgang@gmail.com</a> <div><div> </div></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dan Healy <<a href="mailto:dfhealy@gmail.com" target="_blank">dfhealy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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@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 -- Ubuntu-us-tx mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx</a> </blockquote></div> </div>