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/home/etc or ~/etc?

• birdiesanders 2y ago
  Those are equivalent.
  • michaelmior 2y ago
    On most systems, that is not the case. Typically a user's home directory is `/home/USERNAME` so `~/etc` would be `/home/USERNAME/etc`.
  • execat 2y ago
    No. ~etc is equivalent to /home/etc. ~/etc is the same as /home/<current user>/etc.
  • ijustlovemath 2y ago
    Try it for yourself: [ /home/etc = ~/etc ] || echo theyre different
• Shorel 2y ago
  /home/etc It is a backup directory owned by root. The reason is that it sits in the partition that is preserved, and it is outside my user folder, because it is better organized that way.