On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:47:49AM -0000, wally_2nd wrote:
> I am new to Linux and wondering where the variable $HOME is set.
>
> The reason I am asking is that there are currently two home
> directories: /home/wally and /homes/wally. And with env, it
> shows 'HOME=/homes/wally' and 'OLDHOME=/home/wally'
>
> It really gets me confused, any help would be appreciated.
That's odd, I haven't come across that.
To find out the actual value of a variable, you can do
echo $HOME
In a standard Linux, Unix or other Unix-like system install, I believe
that home will always be /home/wally (unless your user name isn't
wally). :)
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