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> also the ~ being somehow the equivalent of @ With the decline of traditional multiuser systems, it might not be common knowledge anymore that e.g. ~joe is an
by 0xcde4c3db 9y ago
> also the ~ being somehow the equivalent of @
With the decline of traditional multiuser systems, it might not be common knowledge anymore that e.g. ~joe is an alias for joe's home directory, so prefixing usernames with ~ was already an established pattern. This is still seen in URLs, but is somewhat rare now.
- agumonkey 9y agomost often on education websites, teachers having their ~<shortname> page
- isostatic 9y agoBack in the day it was usual for /home/user1/public_html to be exposed as http://server/~user1/ http://server/~user1/ And of course "cd ~", and "cd ~user1" are still everyday commands on pretty much every computer