Its part of the shell your using, ie.. ksh bash sh etc..
try this, as root cd ~username, and it will take you to that users
home. :) great for shell scripts and the like.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Shaun Cloherty wrote:
> Hopefully a straight forward question...
>
> Many/most/all unix applications seem to allow you to specify a file name
> as ~/.somfunkyfile, in which the users home directory is substituted for
> the ~ character. Is this behavior the responsibility of the application,
> or is it handled at a lower level, perhaps by the standard library?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shaun
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> University of New South Wales
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