Tilde (~) Token

Home directory path variable

Description

The tilde token is used as a lazy reference to the users home directory.

Examples

» out: ~
/home/bob

» out: ~joe
/home/joe

Detail

Tilde can be expanded inside double quotes, brace quotes as well as used naked. But it cannot be expanded inside single quotes.

» out: ~
/home/bob

» out: '~'
~

» out: "~"
/home/bob

» out: %(~)
/home/bob

See Also

• Array (@) Token: Expand values as an array
• Brace Quote (%(, )) Tokens: Initiates or terminates a string (variables expanded)
• Double Quote (") Token: Initiates or terminates a string (variables expanded)
• Single Quote (') Token: Initiates or terminates a string (variables not expanded)
• String ($) Token: Expand values as a string
• ( (brace quote): Write a string to the STDOUT without new line
• ja (mkarray): A sophisticated yet simply way to build a JSON array
• out: Print a string to the STDOUT with a trailing new line character
• set: Define a local variable and set it's value