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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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Old 06-17-2005
cut it or grep for it or use awk/sed/perl to get this information from /etc/passwd
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Old 06-17-2005
It should be in $HOME
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Old 06-17-2005
Quote:
But not with the $home-variable or ~
I didnt mention $HOME since the OP asked that the solution not use $HOME. This is probably a homework question.
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Old 06-17-2005
The op asked that we not use $home which is different than $HOME. csh has both variables, but many csh users never find $HOME.
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Old 06-18-2005
Learn something new everyday! Though I stay away from csh, never really used it much.
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