@rl_dane why is this a meme. wasn;t that the explicit purpose of omitted argument?
Or did you think that was just to get specifically to ~ only?

@ajit_456

It's a meme because typing cd ~/docs is the generally viewed "correct" way, as it only requires a specific command.
But even though it requires two commands, cd; cd docs is easier to type, even though it's uglier.

@rl_dane @ajit_456

cd;cd docs

is actually fewer keypresses because there's no shift involved.

(US keyboard - on others YMMV)

@TheLancashireman @rl_dane pressing the shift is the least of your worries when the tilde is involved 🙃