bash also has $HOME, which maps to /home/USERNAME, just in case you wanted another way. :) On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:47 AM, George Larson <george.g.larson@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Thanks! > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2009/3/17 George Larson <george.g.larson@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > In my scripts, I usually define a boolean constant DEBUG. True looks for > >> local copies of includes and echoes queries as they're used. > >> > >> My question is: > >> > >> Is there any way for me to reflect the actual home folder of the person > >> running the script? So it will be "/home/george/foo" when I run it but, > >> for > >> another user, it would be "/home/their-username/foo"? > > > > > > $dir = realpath('~/foo'); > > > > -Stuart > > > > -- > > http://stut.net/ > > >