Tilde (~) Token

Home directory path variable

Description

The tilde token is used as a lazy reference to the users home directory.

Examples

» out ~
/home/bob

» out ~joe
/home/joe

Detail

Tilde can be expanded inside double quotes, brace quotes as well as used naked. But it cannot be expanded inside single quotes.

» out ~
/home/bob

» out '~'
~

» out "~"
/home/bob

» out %(~)
/home/bob

See Also

• %(Brace Quote)`: Initiates or terminates a string (variables expanded)
• Array (@) Token: Expand values as an array
• Reserved Variables: Special variables reserved by Murex
• "Double Quote": Initiates or terminates a string (variables expanded)
• 'Single Quote': Initiates or terminates a string (variables not expanded)
• (brace quote): Write a string to the STDOUT without new line (deprecated)
• ja (mkarray): A sophisticated yet simply way to build a JSON array
• out: Print a string to the STDOUT with a trailing new line character
• set: Define a local variable and set it's value
• string (stringing): string (primitive)

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