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Re: getting the user's home directory path

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On Friday, March 21, 2008 5:22:30 PM UTC-6, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:16:02AM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:05:12 +0900,
> > Chad Perrin wrote in [ruby-talk:295141]:
> > > I've got a program that needs to access a file in the ~/etc/ directory.
> > > This program currently accesses it like so:
> > > 
> > >   file_path = File.expand_path("~#{ENV['USER']}/etc/#{filename}")
> > 
> > File.expand_path("~/etc/#{filename}")
> 
> Amazing -- and confusing.  I could swear I actually tried that and it
> didn't work out for me.  I guess I must have dreamed that.
> 
> -- 
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> Phillip J. Haack: "Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity.
> You can be fast, but if you're going in the wrong direction, you're not
> helping anyone."



On Friday, March 21, 2008 5:22:30 PM UTC-6, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:16:02AM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > At Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:05:12 +0900,
> > Chad Perrin wrote in [ruby-talk:295141]:
> > > I've got a program that needs to access a file in the ~/etc/ directory.
> > > This program currently accesses it like so:
> > > 
> > >   file_path = File.expand_path("~#{ENV['USER']}/etc/#{filename}")
> > 
> > File.expand_path("~/etc/#{filename}")
> 
> Amazing -- and confusing.  I could swear I actually tried that and it
> didn't work out for me.  I guess I must have dreamed that.
> 
> -- 
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> Phillip J. Haack: "Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity.
> You can be fast, but if you're going in the wrong direction, you're not
> helping anyone."

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