I also would ask users to read this: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to ask questions the smart way.
Full of good info for anyone asking technical questions. -Aaron Jeff Andros wrote: > On 10/25/07, *7150* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > <snip> > > My question is, what does the tilde mean in the filename: ~/.ssh/config > > <snip> > > > in most *nix'es, "~" refers to the current user's home directory, "~joe" > refers to a user name "joe"'s home directory > > normally ~/.<something> refers to a user configuration directory (for > instance, if you use pidgin, you have a ~/.purple directory where the > settings for that application are kept so in this case ~/.ssh refers to > the settings directory for your ssh client, and ~/.ssh/config refers to > the config file therein > > if you're curious to find out where that is located, use "cd ~" if you > don't have your prompt set to show you the directory you're in, you can > use "pwd" to see > > on a related note, since we're probably going to have a lot of people > coming in to this that are new to linux, does anyone know where there's > a nice intro to shell commands tutorial we can reference? > > -- > Jeff > O|||||||O >
