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What does the little squiggly ~ do in Linux?

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Mar 15, 202634217 views

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I have two instances of it being used and I am wondering what each does: What does the little squiggly do? Then, after that that, what would do?

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service=~

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The squiggly thing is called a "tilde". It expands to your home directory. Try Both statements put your home directory by itself on a line.. See bash Tilde Expansion for details.

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What does the little squiggly ~ do in Linux?

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