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Why can't I cd to a quoted tilde ('~')?
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Explore using echo command
The easiest way of exploring how things work in bash is with the echo command. In the case of ~ use this:
$ echo ~
/home/rick
$ echo '~'
~
$ echo "~"
~
$ echo `~`
bash: /home/rick: Is a directory
As you can see, when you single quote or use double quotes around ~ it is interpreted literally as a string and not expanded as a variable. When you use backticks (`) it is executed as a command and generates an error message.