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[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:08 +0100
"Adel ESSAFI" <adelessafi at gmail.com> wrote:

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> >> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
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> >> > Can tou help me to solve this problem
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> >> try '~/$user'.
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> > No, it does not work
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> In a scrit shell, I have a variable user which will take all users values

There is probably a proper way to do this but the following ugly hack
also works

DIRECTORY=$(echo "echo ~"$USERNAME | sh)