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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting get home-directory in shell-scripts Post 75387 by qsi on Friday 17th of June 2005 01:24:21 PM
Old 06-17-2005
Bug get home-directory in shell-scripts

Hi,
does somebody know, how i can get the full path of my home-directory in a shell-script? But not with the $home-variable or ~ (i don't know for sure, but i think this does not work in every shell...).

Thank You!
Greetings,
qsi
 

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