Excellent hint!

-systemsboy

And yet I feel dirty, like I'm using a Windows computer where settings are deliberately obfuscated and hidden away inside dialog boxes you can only get under special circumstances...

I would never have discovered this in a million years... or more likely would have seen but not noticed it because it's right in front of me...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1161156/view_library_folder_in_lion.html

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Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the hint and think this is a clever solution (better than many of the other 19 ways in terms of being more direct and less of a hack.)

Excuse me I have go tell some children to go back to walking on the sidewalk.

I'm on Mavericks (10.9) but not seeing this option. Using the Go to folder menu, I open my user library folder ~/Library. I then go to View Options, but there is no option to reveal the folder. What gives?

Is there a (similar) way to view all the files in the root (/) directory? And the equivalent of cd around in them?

Not for the faint of heart or non-UNIX sorts of folks, but it might be easier than going to Terminal, &c.

Excellent. I hope this setting is kept between system updates unlike the terminal solution which needs to be applied everytime. Well, 10.9.1 will show that… :-)

A quibble for your consideration:
The option to view the user Library folder is only available for a window at the top level of the user's Home folder ( i.e. a window showing just the contents of the user's Home folder).
Other views "showing the user's home folder" do not have a selectable option for viewing the users private Library folder. ( /Users for example )
Once selected within the user's Home folder window, however, the effect of the option is available in every view that reveals the contents of the user's Home folder.
Like I said... a quibble.

Surely this should be in 10.9, not OS X, as it's a Mavericks-specific hint?