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I don't know why but the tilde shortcut "~" to access my User Folder doesn't work for me (I get a "Permission Denied" alert). I've just discovered that "cd home" does exactly the same: it moves you to the user directory...I don't know if it's a common Unix feature or another alias made by Apple but it's neat!
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% cd ~
~ is not an alias!
The reason you are getting permission denied errors is because you are typing '~' as a command, when in fact it is a pseudo path. What you want to type is 'cd ~'. 'cd home' is in fact specific to the C-shell (and tcsh).
~ is not an alias!
Seems to me that the best habit is "cd ~" though. It's still pretty short (I'm not |
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