On Mon, May 09 2016, Bijan Chokoufe Nejad wrote: >> ~user is ~ in case you're 'user' -- except that now that I think of it >> ~user could read home directory from /etc/passwd and not using $HOME. >> If you're 'eve', then ~alice should definitely be different than ~ > > OK I see. I never used ~user instead of ~ and don't see any advantage in using > ~user but good to know it's there. A solution that supports ~ but not ~user seems incomplete.