Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:25:49 +0200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1094385246.5803.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <6.1.2.0.1.20040926005459.02810cb0@mail.ros.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd953c3b7.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes >>But is there any command that give's me the home for a given username? > > bash -c "echo ~username" Oh well, beside bash (and any other big programm called shell) > Or you could write one using the getpwnam() call (better yet, the > reentrant versions, getpwnam_r()), and submit it to, say, cygutils (since > sh-utils is no longer being actively developed). I just wondered how to write a "correct" shell-script that runs with /bin/sh, and it seems there is no way "shell-script"-way to figure out a user's homedir. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/