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What does the ~ mean in a file path?

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Mar 15, 202695242 views
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What does the mean in an absolute file path? I see this in the output of things like build scripts but the path does not exist.

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Normally it means the user's home directory e.g. would be the user 's home directory, would be your own home directory. However, it is unclear to me whether and should be considered absolute or relative; it seems to depend on the definition given (if anyone can come up with an authorative reference, please post a comment). Note that I'm talking about Unix based systems here. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory#Unix

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