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Re: $HOME not set?
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Re: $HOME not set?


  • Subject: Re: $HOME not set?
  • From: William Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:43:07 -0800

On Mar 30, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
	Is it ever possible that $HOME not be set for a user?  If so,
	how?

Generally, no, it will always be set. But, as with all environment variables, it may have been modified, unset, or otherwise futzed with for no apparent reason. Unix is like that. There is always a reason, it just may not be apparent (or good).


If you have an alternative source for said bit o' information, then use it.

	I remember reading somewhere that there's a Cocoa method
	someplace to get the user's home directory, but I can't seem to
	find it.  Any pointer?

NSHomeDirectory(). Not exactly a method, but the result is an NSString.

http://tinyurl.com/n3ncn

Or NSHomeDirectoryForUser().

b.bum
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