On 15 June 2010 at 22:17, Giuseppe Zompatori <siliconjoe at gmail.com> wrote: > "~" is a bash alias for $HOME. > i.e.: "cd ~" does cd to your $HOME directory. True, but if bash is anything like [t]csh, then a tilde (~) in the middle of a word doesn't have any special meaning. Cheerio... -- Kevin