Universal user ID for hyperlinks to files/folders

[mtz_federico]

whats the equibalent to something like %USERPROFILE% from windows on linux/macos to do something like

mv %USERPROFILE%/Desktop/FILE %USERPROFILE%/Desktop/FOLDER/FILE

 

 

here is more info that I found when googleing

 https://superuser.com/questions/1054094/universal-user-id-for-hyperlinks-to-folders

[Electronics Wizardy]

On linux you can do ~/Downloads for current user downloads file.

[Guest]

Other than the user tilde there is nothing more other than symlinks in the / folder