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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