From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T09:39:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26392] Re: Converting ~fred to home directory path

In article <1006646006.774.0.camel@stargrazer>, "Sean Middleditch"
<elanthis@awesomeplay.com> wrote:

> No no.  ~,^  Read the $HOME environment variable.  /etc/passwd might not
> even have the user in it (login over NIS or LDAP).  $HOME is supposed to
> be set by the login shell, so use that.

That will work for just "~", but won't work for "~fred" when I'm logged
in as "jim".