Cd tilde

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cd tilde
/C·D til·d@/
Usage: vi.


cd tilde: /C·D til·d@/ vi.

To go home. From the Unix C-shell and Korn-shell command cd ~, which takes one to one's $HOME (cd with no arguments happens to do the same thing). By extension, may be used with other arguments; thus, over an electronic chat link, cd ~coffee would mean "I'm going to the coffee machine."

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Source: cd tilde, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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