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The "tilde" part of the name comes from the ~ character, traditionally used to indicate a users public HTML directory. For instance, if you were a user "dannyb

by dusted 5y ago

The "tilde" part of the name comes from the ~ character, traditionally used to indicate a users public HTML directory. For instance, if you were a user "dannyboy" on example.com you might host a website in /home/dannyboy/public_html and it'd be exposed via example.com/~dannoyboy

joshu 5y ago
and unix shell expansion before that
- dusted 5y ago
  oh yes, of course, I used to type cd ~ instead of just cd. Totally forgot that
  - notinty 5y ago
    cd ~dusted is the lesser-known expansion
  - JoBrad 5y ago
    My top 2 aliases (after ll): alias ~="cd ~" alias ..="cd .."
    - ksherlock 5y ago
      As of bash 4, `shopt -s autocd` will automatically do that (and more).
      - JoBrad 5y ago
        TIL - thanks!
- thewakalix 5y ago
  As they say, $HOME is where the tilde is.
- bitwize 5y ago
  And it came to Unix because "HOME" was printed on the tilde key of the ADM3A terminal.
  - joshu 5y ago
    i did not know this! so what was more influential, adm3a or vt100?
s_dev 5y ago
Origins of Tilde Club: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...
- scrollaway 5y ago
  Similarly used by https://tildes.net https://tildes.net (invites available if you email me).