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Tilde Expansion

Bash has tilde (~) expansion, similar, but not identical, to that of csh. The following table shows what unquoted words beginning with a tilde expand to.

~

The current value of $HOME.

~/foo

`$HOME/foo'

~fred/foo

The subdirectory foo of the home directory of the user fred.

~+/foo

`$PWD/foo'

~-

`$OLDPWD/foo'

Bash will also tilde expand words following redirection operators and words following `=' in assignment statements.

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