would it not be better to get the users homedir from /etc/passwd ?
yeah it invokes 2 extra processes, but at least it's clearer ...
#!/bin/bash
#
# homedir
#
HOMEDIR=`grep "$1" /etc/passwd|cut -d":" -f 6`
echo $HOMEDIR
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:10:45PM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:51:50PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > Given this little script called homedir
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo ~$1
>> eval echo ~$1
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