What does the $ mean in Linux?

Question

I want to know what the code below means:

What does the dollar bit mean?

 user@Linux-003 ~ $

Answer 1

Someone with the user name "user" has logged in to this machine with host name "Linux-003".

"~" - represent the home folder of the user, conventionally it would be /home/user/, where "user" is the user name can be anything like /home/johnsmith.

"$" - this is a sign of the shell prompt, which means that the shell is ready to accept commands, you can understand it as a separator after which, you can interact with a shell. Can also be "#" which shows that root is the user whose session is going on.

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