I have read many Questions and Answers here. In some of them there are directories that I cannot find on my computer, for example:
/home/username/.local/
~/.local/share/Steam
What is ~
, what is folder start with .
, and how I can access these folders?
Best Answer
~
is a special shell replacement. It's replaced with your home directory (typically/home/$USER
but not neccessarily). It's a shortcut we use because it's nice and short and it's impossible to know everybody's$HOME
.Files and directories prepended with a dot are hidden. In Windows it's a boolean setting on files, in Unix it's based on the filename. You can still access them though:
nautilus <full path>
cd
directly to the path.