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Re:Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage by WalterGR on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:55AM (#26283002)
Going to my home dir is another frequent operation for me so I also have

  alias ~='pushd ~'
(Those are tildes but may look like dashes depending on your font and size...)

Not as fancy as some other aliases I see here but does the (basic) trick.

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Re:Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage by stevekemp on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:34AM (#26284176)
A raw "cd" with no arguments will take you back to your home-directory. Of course "~" is one less character to type, but on the off-chance you didn't know.
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Re:Show HN: Unix tool that visualizes shell commands usage by JNRowe on Saturday February 27, 2021 @09:19AM (#26284996)
As we're offering alternatives. Either `shopt autocd` in bash or `setopt auto_cd` in zsh, then ~ changes to home by simply being a path.
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