For example "~" will turn into "${HOME}" to let a user set a custom path in a script.
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0:00 -- Intro
0:34 -- Running the script to see how it works
1:22 -- Only replacing the tilde if it's the first character
2:08 -- Replacing all instances of the tilde with the home directory
3:12 -- It's up to you on which one to pick