Re: Name of current users home folder (OS X)
Re: Name of current users home folder (OS X)
- Subject: Re: Name of current users home folder (OS X)
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:17:39 +0000
This from Reinhold Penner - dated 28-01-03 03.14 pm:
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> I've devised a way of finding the current users home folder very
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> crudely...
<SNIP>
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> Is there a better way of achiving this value?
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set userName to do shell script "whoami"
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or
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set userName to do shell script "id -un"
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these two will give you just the user's name. You will need to assemble
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the path to the desktop from there. Alternatively, you can get the path
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directly (i.e. an alias to it) by
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set desktopFolder to (path to desktop)
Am I missing something here? Surely this would be sufficient:
set homeFldr to path to current user folder
And, er, where did the desktop creep in from?
Nick
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