Bash - Concatenating Variable on to Path

Question

Currently, I have a bash script that will untar a file in my root directory:

#!/bin/bash
tar xvf ~/some-file.tar

This works without problems. N

Answer 1

Tilde expansion doesn't work when inside a variable. You can use the $HOME variable instead:

#!/bin/bash
p=$HOME
tar xvf "$p/some_file.tar"