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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:25:49 +0200
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>>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.


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