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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find out the home directory of a user?? Post 302183146 by wrapster on Tuesday 8th of April 2008 11:57:49 AM
Old 04-08-2008
Hi,
I forgot to mention, i would like to know how to incorporate it into a script..
I mean how to give input to $HOME so that depending upon the username the $HOME gives me the home dir...

I must also mention, i will not be running as root...
 

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VIMPLATE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       VIMPLATE(1)

NAME
vimplate - the vim template system. DEPENDS on PACKAGES Template-Toolkit http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.14 please install Template-Toolkit on your system. DEPENDS on SETTINGS variable HOME on unix/bsd/linux the variable home is set. On Windows please set the variable home to the value where _vimplaterc should be locatet. SYNOPSIS
vimplate <-template=<template>> [-out=<file>] [-user=<user>] [-dir=<dir>] [-config=<file>] vimplate <-createconfig> vimplate <-listtemplates> vimplate <-listusers> vimplate <-version> vimplate <-help|-h|-?> vimplate <-man> OPTIONS
-help|-h|-? Print a brief help message and exit. -man Print the manual page and exit. -version Print the version and exit. -createconfig Write a vimplate config to $HOME/.vimplaterc or %HOME%\_vimplaterc (on Windows) and exit. -listtemplate Print the avaible templates and exit. -listusers Print the avaible users and exit. -user|u=<username> Use the information form user <username> while parsing templates. -dir|d=<templatedir> Search templatefiles in <templatedir>. -template=<templatefile> Use the <templatefile>. DESCRIPTION
vimplate Print a spezified template to standard output. AUTHOR
Urs Stotz <stotz@gmx.ch> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Urs Stotz <stotz@gmx.ch> All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
perl(1) Template(3) perl v5.14.2 2012-10-07 VIMPLATE(1)
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