Location of the user’s home directory
$HOME
contains the path of the current user’s home directory. It’s used in tilde expansion.
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Examples
- Output the path to the current user’s home directory.
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- Tilde expansion for the current user
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- Tilde expansion for another user
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Output the path to the home directory of user “jane”. If the user does not exist, then the output depends on your shell’s implementation.
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