Hi Pinco,
The ~ refers to your home directory:
So cd ~ is equivalent to cd /home/dharshi for instance.
The directory /etc/skel contains files and folders that are used in setting up a particular user's default state environment, such as giving him a shell resource file/s, maybe a site specific emacs resource file or even giving the individual a e.g GNOME specific look when they log in to the system. HTH.
Cheers,
Aly.
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