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RE: "which" command does not expand "~" in path


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen
> Sent: 27 September 2004 18:24

> you wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Sven Köhler wrote:

> >> I just wondered how to write a "correct" shell-script that 
> runs with
> >> /bin/sh, and it seems there is no way "shell-script"-way to figure
> >> out a  user's homedir.
> >
> > You could try
> >
> > awk -F: "/^username:/"'{print $6}' < /etc/passwd
> >
> > (the pattern is in double quotes so that variable substitution can
> > occur, e.g., you could change "username" to "$1" in a shell script).
> > Igor --
> 
> $ u="Hannu";sed -nre "s/^$u.*:(.*):.*$/\1/p" </etc/passwd
> 
> I bet there are some more other ways to do it... ;-P

My first thought was

grep "username" /etc/passwd | cut -d ':' -f 6


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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