bash also has $HOME, which maps to /home/USERNAME, just in case you wanted
another way.  :)

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:47 AM, George Larson <george.g.lar...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2009/3/17 George Larson <george.g.lar...@gmail.com>
> >
> > In my scripts, I usually define a boolean constant DEBUG.  True looks for
> >> local copies of includes and echoes queries as they're used.
> >>
> >> My question is:
> >>
> >> Is there any way for me to reflect the actual home folder of the person
> >> running the script?  So it will be "/home/george/foo" when I run it but,
> >> for
> >> another user, it would be "/home/their-username/foo"?
> >
> >
> > $dir = realpath('~/foo');
> >
> > -Stuart
> >
> > --
> > http://stut.net/
> >
>

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