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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:08 +0100
> "Adel ESSAFI" <adelessafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Can tou help me to solve this problem
>>>> try '~/$user'.
>>>
>>> No, it does not work
>> In a scrit shell, I have a variable user which will take all users values
> 
> DIRECTORY=$(echo "echo ~"$USERNAME | sh)

try 'echo ~/$LOGNAME' to get logged in user and directory




peace out.

tc,hago.

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