Your Question: How Do I Get to the Users Directory in Linux?

Linux distributions use BASH as /bin/sh , for which tilde expansion works. If you run echo ~ using /bin/sh under some other UNIX OS, you can get back just the tilde (e.g. “~” ) instead of home directory path.

Where is the user directory in Linux?

Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user’s Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop . The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username .

How do I access users in Linux?

Get a List of All Users using the /etc/passwd File #

1. User name.
2. Encrypted password ( x means that the password is stored in the /etc/shadow file).
3. User ID number (UID).
4. User’s group ID number (GID).
5. Full name of the user (GECOS).
6. User home directory.
7. Login shell (defaults to /bin/bash ).