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#9
xterm prints the name of the current working directory and a "$"
in front of the command line. For example:

"/home $"
or
"/usr/share $"
Your users HOME directory is /home/user and "~" is an abbreviations for this.
Therefore
"~ $" means
"/home/user $"

nicolai