skel

[Aly Dharshi]

Hi Pinco,

	The ~ refers to your home directory:

	So cd ~ is equivalent to cd /home/dharshi for instance.

	The directory /etc/skel contains files and folders that are used in 
setting up a particular user's default state environment, such as giving 
him a shell resource file/s, maybe a site specific emacs resource file 
or even giving the individual a e.g GNOME specific look when they log in 
to the system. HTH.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

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