Re: [Trisquel-users] Is DOS smarter?

[marioxcc0]

In several shells such as Bash you can use "~[USER]" as a shorthand for an  
user home directory (If USER is not specified, it defaults to you, the user  
as whom the shell is running). For instance, to change to your home directory  
you can do "cd ~" or just "cd" as "cd" defaults to it. To change to "bob"  
downloads directory, do "cd ~bob/Downloads". Note that having user  
directories as their username under "/home" is a common convention, but it's  
not always the case. Using the "~" syntaxis will give the correcect directory  
even when it's not in "/home".

Regards.