I am writing code to copy file if user dir exists.
Code snippet :

#!/bin/sh
if [ -d ~user1 ]
then
cp ~user1/file file
else
cp ~user2/file file
fi

This code works if shell is ksh but not if shell is sh.
Can anyone suggest how this can work in sh script?

Thanks,
Ashish

You could use "getent passwd username" to get the record for the user, then extract the home directory from there, else use

`/usr/bin/ksh -c "echo ~$username"`