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How to get home directory of specified user?
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| Hi,
I need get full path name for a specified user's directory.
For example, I need get the full path name "/home/John/temp" for "~John/temp".
Is there any function for that?
Thanks
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| Paul J 2004-05-18, 1:31 am |
| Stone wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need get full path name for a specified user's directory.
> For example, I need get the full path name "/home/John/temp" for
> "~John/temp".
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> Is there any function for that?
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> Thanks
You could just type:
ls -d ~username
Paul J
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| Barry Margolin 2004-05-18, 2:31 am |
| In article <d3a92589.0405172008.791bd0ab@posting.google.com>,
diaolsbit@sohu.com (Stone) wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need get full path name for a specified user's directory.
> For example, I need get the full path name "/home/John/temp" for "~John/temp".
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> Is there any function for that?
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> Thanks
getpwnam()
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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