The '~' symbol works for the targetPackage parameter, but cannot be used in most of the other parameters.

For example in the interceptorBinding parameter of a cdi-new-interceptor command. In the following script I can create an interceptor binding in the subpackage .view.util using the '~' symbol, but in the cdi-new-interceptor I can't. It throws an exception :

cdi-new-interceptor-binding --named CatchException --targetPackage ~.view.util ;
cdi-new-interceptor --named CatchExceptionInterceptor --interceptorBinding ~.view.util.CatchException  --targetPackage ~.view.util ;

This behavior is in most of the other commands, such as FORGE-2464.