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10-22-2007

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Home Directory Location Code

Hello All,
I am a teacher at a local high school, and we have put together a small computer and loaded a linux distro onto it for the students to experiment with, because 20 children share the computer, it is hard to keep track of there home directorys,

i was wondering if i could find a script for the location of the users home directory, so i could load a terminal, type in the command followed by the users name, and i could find where the users home directory is, i know i can see it in the /ect/password, but a script would be much easier

any help would be greatly appriciated

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