This is how it works:

ifstream list("../../../.Alarm_clock/output.txt");

So - no:

 ifstream list("$HOME/.Alarm_clock/output.txt");
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As far as I can judge about Linux (I'm not too knowledgeable in it), $HOME is an indication for the shell to substitute the value of the HOME environment variable. What the ifstream constructor naturally does not do.

Use the appropriate function - as I understand it, getenv("HOME") , and collect the full path to the file.