~ is a placeholder for the user's home directory, so if your user name is johndoe your ~ is /home/johndoe.
If you are getting new lines with > in the beginning you probably used backslashes \...
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~ is a placeholder for the user's home directory, so if your user name is johndoe your ~ is /home/johndoe.
If you are getting new lines with > in the beginning you probably used backslashes \...