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~ means $HOME. For example, I often run cd ~/programs on my laptop.

But I just saw a usage of ~ without a following backslash, e.g. ~tim/public/ on a server. Does that mean different than when ~ is followed by a backslash?

Tim
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~ is always your own home.

~tim is the home of user tim

  • Careful, sometimes a tilde is just a tilde, i.e. it does get mapped to your home folder, depends on a lot of factors. – phk Oct 13 '15 at 23:16