9.3. Directory Naming Shorthand

Both csh and tcsh provide a shorthand notation for referring to user account home directories, and tcsh provides a shorthand for referring to entries in your directory stack.

9.3.1. Referring to Home Directories Using ˜name

The shell interprets ˜ or ˜name at the beginning of pathnames to mean your home directory, or the home directory for user name. These shortcuts give you a quick way to refer to any user's home directory, without typing (or even knowing) the actual pathname. Thus, if I want to see what files carl has in his home directory, I don't have to know where that directory is; I just type the following command: