How can interpret ~ symbol in this command line?

Question

While I am installing Jenkins and Ansible, I see this command from tutorial.

sudo cp ~/.kube/config ~jenkins/.kube/
sudo chown -R jenkins: ~jenkins/.kube/

sudo cp ~/.kube/config ~jenkins/.kube/

sudo chown -R jenkins: ~jenkins/.kube/

~/.kube/config means the home diectory/.kube/config file.

But as for ~jenkins, I don't know what does it mean.

Can you kindly let me know?

Answer 1

~ means home directory of the current user (the one calling the command).

~username means home directory of the user username.