Tilde in file path

[digbydog]

Probably silly question of the day but what does the tilde in a filename mean for example ~/filename?

Thanks

Brendan

[lisati]

Probably silly question of the day but what does the tilde in a filename mean for example ~/filename?

Thanks

Brendan

It's a kind of shorthand:

~/filename

is equivalent to

/home/yourusername/filename

[digbydog]

Thanks.

[HiImTye]

tilde is the same as $HOME (which is useful to note for when ~/ doesn't work in command lines you can fall back on $HOME/)