cd tilde

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

cd tilde
 /C.D til.d@/, vi.

   To go home. From the Unix C-shell and Korn-shell command cd ~, which
   takes one to one's $HOME (cd with no arguments happens to do the same
   thing). By extension, may be used with other arguments; thus, over an
   electronic chat link, cd ~coffee would mean "I'm going to the coffee
   machine."

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

cd tilde

   /C-D til-d*/ To go home.  From the {Unix} {C shell} and
   Korn-shell command "cd ~", which takes one to one's "$HOME"
   directory.  "cd" with no arguments does the same thing.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-10-28)