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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving and Deleting Files

Posted by Jessica Hines
Jessica Hines
1,670 Points

What is the difference between using ~ and . to get back to current directories?

Does using ~ and . take you back to current directories? Which one is recommended to use?

1 Answer

miikis
miikis
44,957 Points

Hey Jessica,

The tilde (~) symbol takes you to your home directory. The period (.) takes you to your current directory. Here's a cheatsheet, https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Terminal-Cheatsheet-for-Mac-(-basics-), that you can reference in the future :)

Jessica Hines
Jessica Hines
1,670 Points

thanks so much! consoles is a whole different animal than HTML and CSS, so I'm trying not to get lost!