How to get the 'user.home' and 'user.dir' with a Linux command?

thomas2004ch · 03-28-2014, 11:18 AM

as titled.

schneidz · 03-28-2014, 11:21 AM

this question doesnt make much sense but i will assume you mean the users home directory:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ebay]$ echo $HOME
/home/schneidz

if those are specific files you can just cat them

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ebay]$ touch user.home user.dir
[schneidz@hyper ebay]$ find $HOME -name user.home -o -name user.dir
/home/schneidz/ebay/user.dir
/home/schneidz/ebay/user.home
[schneidz@hyper ebay]$ cat user.home user.dir

thomas2004ch · 03-31-2014, 07:23 AM

This is not what I want. What I want is: I log in to machine and want to know where is my user.home.

pan64 · 03-31-2014, 07:45 AM

that is exactly echo $HOME. But actually these expressions (user.home and user.dir) are not general terms in the linux world. Therefore you need to explain what do you really mean by them.

michaelk · 03-31-2014, 09:16 AM

Well, then what do you want? What distribution / version are you currently running?

As stated you need to define what you mean by "where is my use.home". I will try to guess and say you want to know what partition /home resides. You can look at the output of the mount command as well as looking at the /etc/fstab file. If /home is not shown then it is part of your / partition.

Habitual · 03-31-2014, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas2004ch

This is not what I want. What I want is: I log in to machine and want to know where is my user.home.

Then use something a little more than

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas2004ch

as titled.

You get out of it what you put into it.