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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Call a Perl script within a bash script and store the ouput in a .txt file Post 302876119 by mecaka on Thursday 21st of November 2013 07:41:58 PM
Old 11-21-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Yeah. On many shells, cd ~ is treated as a synonym for cd $HOME, however cd ~logname (where logname is your login name) should work.
But the real issue is that $HOME has been set incorrectly; it should ALWAYS be an absolute pathname.

It looks like you may have accidentally removed the leading "/" from $HOME. If you log out and log back in and $HOME still does not start with a "/", you'll need to dig through your shell's initialization files and correct the line that sets HOME.

Until you find the problem, assuming your login name is mecaka, the following should get your current shell execution environment back to a reasonable state:
Code:
cd ~mecaka
HOME=$PWD
export HOME

I just went back and read my original post. I am not posting this from the browser on my VM, so I could not copy and paste... There is a backslash before home, and there has been the whole time. I apologize for this confusion. I will correct this in the original.

However, if this was not the issue, what is? The PWD is "/home/*****/Documents" (assuming this helps any...)
I must add, I don't know much about the behind-the-scenes workings of programming. There might be something quote-en-qoute "obvious" that I wouldn't have caught.
Last edited by mecaka; 11-21-2013 at 08:47 PM..
 

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NAME

       biff - Notifies users when mail arrives

SYNOPSIS

       biff [y | n]

DESCRIPTION

       The  biff  command  informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session. The following
       command enables notification: biff y

       The following command disables notification: biff n

       When mail notification is enabled, the From: and Subject: header lines and up to the first five lines of the  message  are  displayed.  The
       total display is 560 characters, or seven lines terminated by newline characters, whichever occurs first.

       The biff y command is often included in the $HOME/.login or $HOME/.profile file to be executed each time you log in.

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FILES

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