cd ~ not working on Windows 7

Question

On one of my computers cd ~ (cd tilde) has stopped working. It says the desired path can not be found.

Any idea what could cause this? I need it for git. (it does work in Git Bash though)

Answer 1

cd ~ won't work in cmd.exe (unless you have a directory named "~" - the equivalent in cmd.exe is just plain old cd.

Cygwin (and possibly other implementations of) bash does correctly resolve this. Are you not running this command in bash?

cd ~ may work in Powershell, though (different from cmd.exe)... haven't tried...

Answer 2

Are you using the classic windows command prompt or windows power shell? It should work in the later but not in the former.