[GLLUG] ~ or $HOME ?

[Matthew Walster]

On 17 March 2014 12:03, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> a) $HOME
>

​This can be over-written on the shell. It's not perfect, and you'll need
to do some error handling in case someone's done something silly.​


> b) getpwuid() (or similar)
>

​Wait, are we dealing with C or bash?​



> c) $HOME, but if that is not defined: getpwuid()
>

That's what "tilde" does by default in bash:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/tilde?s[]=tilde&s[]=expansion
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