Change to Your Home Directory

cd ~

You should know about a few nice shortcuts for cd. No matter where you are, just enter a simple cd, and you'll immediately be whisked back to your home directory. This is a fantastic timesaver, one that you'll use all the time. Or, if you'd like, you can use cd ~ because the ~ is like a shortcut meaning "my home directory."

$ pwd /home/scott/music $ cd ~ $ pwd /home/scott