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 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:29:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path In-Reply-To: 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: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-126398554-1096248566=:630" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 ---559023410-126398554-1096248566=:630 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Sven Köhler wrote: > > > 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. You could try awk -F: "/^username:/"'{print $6}' < /etc/passwd (the pattern is in double quotes so that variable substitution can occur, e.g., you could change "username" to "$1" in a shell script). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw ---559023410-126398554-1096248566=:630 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ ---559023410-126398554-1096248566=:630--