Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:53:15 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> To: "youshi10@u.washington.edu" <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME? Message-ID: <ba29b9b40701252253h5c5d6240ia2447f698fdf3a36@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ba29b9b40701252251p1e6df8f1xcded017655acbcb2@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251138500.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu> <ba29b9b40701252251p1e6df8f1xcded017655acbcb2@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/26/07, Dak Ghatikachalam <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I write shells script extensively , I have noticed
>
> ~ -> gets a subsitution for $HOME
> ~userid - >gets you the $HOME for that user
>
> meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some
> script on oracle home even though you logged in as root you can simplly
>
> ~oracle/runme.sh -- > will run the runme.sh in Oracle home directory
>
> Regards
> Dak
>
> On 1/25/07, youshi10@u.washington.edu <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hello again,
> > I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
> > commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can
> > substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see
> > with this is an improper configuration with sudo (ran into some problems
> > with $HOME in the past using sudo on Gentoo), but I'm pretty sure that
> > sudo's setup on the machine cluster properly.
> > TIA,
> > -Garrett
> >
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