What does the mean in Linux

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What does the dollar bit mean?

 user@Linux-003 ~ $
Dec 14, 2022 in Linux Administration by erzan
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For this particular case following code means:

Somebody with user name "user" has logged in to the machine with host name "Linux-003".

"~" - represent the home folder of the user, conventionally it would be /home/user/, where "user" is the user name can be anything like /home/johnsmith.

"$" - is just a sign of the shell prompt, means that shell is ready to accept commands, you can understand it as a separator after which, you can interact with a shell. Can also be "#" which shows that root is the user who's session is going on.
answered Dec 15, 2022 by Elton
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edited Mar 5, 2025

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