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<p>Reimported from hrwiki.org Wayback HTML→wikitext (full reconvert)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:00, 18 July 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;!-- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mirrored from Homestar Runner Wiki </del>(hrwiki.org) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">via Wayback Machine </del>--&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;!-- <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wayback HTML body </ins>(hrwiki.org)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; RawHtml </ins>--&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/6/66/pwd.png/250px-pwd.png</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;html&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;div class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:pwd.png" title="The working directory is printed, man."&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="thumbimage" height="182" src="</ins>https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/6/66/pwd.png/250px-pwd.png<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" width="250"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt;&lt;div class="magnify"&gt;&lt;a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:pwd.png" title="Enlarge"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="11" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The working directory is &lt;i&gt;printed&lt;/i&gt;, man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=pwd" title="wikipedia:pwd"&gt;pwd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is the &lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=POSIX" title="wikipedia:POSIX"&gt;POSIX&lt;/a&gt; (a standard for &lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=Unix-like" title="wikipedia:Unix-like"&gt;Unix-like&lt;/a&gt; systems) command for "print working directory." This is for &lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=Command_Line_Interface" title="wikipedia:Command Line Interface"&gt;command line interfaces&lt;/a&gt;, where file browsing is the core component of most &lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=Shell_%28computing%29" title="wikipedia:Shell (computing)"&gt;shells&lt;/a&gt;. Thus, this command means "tell me what folder I'm in" in plain English. It has been used in most of &lt;a href="/index.php?title=Videlectrix" title="Videlectrix"&gt;Videlectrix&lt;/a&gt;'s text adventures, as a secret command to show your location in a POSIX directory style.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like more consumer-centric operating systems, most Unix-like systems use &lt;a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=User_%28computing%29" title="wikipedia:User (computing)"&gt;user accounts&lt;/a&gt;, and give them their own personal directory. This folder is called the "home directory" on such systems, and POSIX uses &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt; (a tilde) as a shorthand to use when inputting a directory. A username can follow this &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt;, pointing to said user's directory (for example, &lt;code&gt;~peasantsquest/Mountain Pass&lt;/code&gt; points to the "Mountain Pass" folder in the home directory of the user "peasantsquest"). However, in the real world, the &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt; is primarily used by itself (that is, without a user name following it) to refer to the current user's home directory, as accessing another user's home directory is restricted or denied.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/p&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;a id="Appearances" name="Appearances"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Appearances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/index.php?title=Thy_Dungeonman_II" title="Thy Dungeonman II"&gt;Thy Dungeonman II&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;code&gt;~&lt;i&gt;X&lt;/i&gt;dungeonman/DUNGEON/CELL&lt;/code&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;X&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt; is the first letter of the name you give at the start of the game</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/index.php?title=Peasant%27s_Quest" title="Peasant's Quest"&gt;Peasant's Quest&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;code&gt;~peasantsquest/Mountain Pass&lt;/code&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/index.php?title=Thy_Dungeonman_3" title="Thy Dungeonman 3"&gt;Thy Dungeonman 3&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;code&gt;Wastes of time/Dumb Games/Dungeonman 3/Yon Dungeon&lt;/code&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;a id="See_Also" name="See_Also"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt; See Also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/index.php?title=Linux" title="Linux"&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''The working directory is printed , man.''</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''[[pwd]]''' is the [[POSIX]] (a standard for [[Unix-like]] systems) command for "print working directory." This is for [[Command Line Interface|command line interfaces]], where file browsing is the core component of most [[Shell (computing)|shells]]. Thus, this command means "tell me what folder I'm in" in plain English. It has been used in most of [[Videlectrix]]'s text adventures, as a secret command to show your location in a POSIX directory style.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Like more consumer-centric operating systems, most Unix-like systems use [[User (computing)|user accounts]], and give them their own personal directory. This folder is called the "home directory" on such systems, and POSIX uses ~ (a tilde) as a shorthand to use when inputting a directory. A username can follow this ~, pointing to said user's directory (for example, ~peasantsquest/Mountain Pass points to the "Mountain Pass" folder in the home directory of the user </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">peasantsquest</del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">). However, in the real world, the ~ is primarily used by itself (that is, without a user name following it) to refer to the current user's home directory, as accessing another user's home directory is restricted or denied.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;div class=</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">visualClear</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&gt;&lt;</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">div&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Appearances ==</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">html&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Thy Dungeonman II]] — ~''X''dungeonman/DUNGEON/CELL</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** The ''X'' is the first letter of the name you give at the start of the game</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Peasant's Quest]] — ~peasantsquest</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mountain Pass</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Thy Dungeonman 3]] — Wastes of time/Dumb Games/Dungeonman 3</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yon Dungeon</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== See Also ==</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Linux]]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Electronics running gags]]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; 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<p>Reimported from hrwiki.org Wayback HTML→wikitext (full reconvert)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;!-- Mirrored from Homestar Runner Wiki (hrwiki.org) via Wayback Machine --&gt;<br /> https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/6/66/pwd.png/250px-pwd.png<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;The working directory is printed , man.&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;[[pwd]]&#039;&#039;&#039; is the [[POSIX]] (a standard for [[Unix-like]] systems) command for &quot;print working directory.&quot; This is for [[Command Line Interface|command line interfaces]], where file browsing is the core component of most [[Shell (computing)|shells]]. Thus, this command means &quot;tell me what folder I&#039;m in&quot; in plain English. It has been used in most of [[Videlectrix]]&#039;s text adventures, as a secret command to show your location in a POSIX directory style.<br /> <br /> Like more consumer-centric operating systems, most Unix-like systems use [[User (computing)|user accounts]], and give them their own personal directory. This folder is called the &quot;home directory&quot; on such systems, and POSIX uses ~ (a tilde) as a shorthand to use when inputting a directory. A username can follow this ~, pointing to said user&#039;s directory (for example, ~peasantsquest/Mountain Pass points to the &quot;Mountain Pass&quot; folder in the home directory of the user &quot;peasantsquest&quot;). However, in the real world, the ~ is primarily used by itself (that is, without a user name following it) to refer to the current user&#039;s home directory, as accessing another user&#039;s home directory is restricted or denied.<br /> <br /> == Appearances ==<br /> <br /> * [[Thy Dungeonman II]] — ~&#039;&#039;X&#039;&#039;dungeonman/DUNGEON/CELL<br /> ** The &#039;&#039;X&#039;&#039; is the first letter of the name you give at the start of the game<br /> * [[Peasant&#039;s Quest]] — ~peasantsquest/Mountain Pass<br /> * [[Thy Dungeonman 3]] — Wastes of time/Dumb Games/Dungeonman 3/Yon Dungeon<br /> <br /> == See Also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Linux]]<br /> [[Category:Electronics running gags]]<br /> </div>

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