I have installed composer by the instructions given in their site for Ubuntu 16.04. Its giving the usual output after giving the 'composer' command in the terminal. After installing composer, I have downloaded the composer using
composer global require "laravel/installer"
Now to install Laravel, I have to add $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin
in my path. But there is no .composer folder in my home directory. Can anybody tell me why this is happening ?