/root or $HOME? [SOLVED]

[Argolance]

Hello,
/root or $HOME?
Inside a script, are these to paths equivalent or different, for example, has this any importance according to the mode Puppy is running?
Thank you for your attention.

Cordialement.

[L18L]

equivalent or different

equivalent if running as root

different if not running as root (---> fido, spot, rex or any other name)
fido's HOME is /root/fido
spot's HOME is /root/spot

I would recommend always $HOME

[musher0]

Salut Argolance.

In addition to L18L's observations, if, in a console, you type :

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  rox /mnt/home

  you get the directory where your Puppy system files are located;

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  rox $HOME

  you get the usual "/root";

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  rox $home

  you get a listing of the directory from which you issued your command.

I hope this helps.

Bye for now.

musher0

[darkcity]

Can't you use
~/
to point the current 'root/home' directory.

Which means it will work on a Linux that is using non-root login. So maybe ~/ = $HOME ?

[amigo]

'~/' and '$HOME' are equivalent and should always be used instead of any hard-coded path to the users home dir.

[Argolance]

Hello,
Thank you to all of you, "mates"!

Cordialement.

[Karl Godt]

Am launching xwin via /etc/inittab :

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bash-3.2# echo $HOME
/

It appears that rox uses "$HOME" as well.

Some probably should be /root though :

/root/.packages
/root/.pup_event

[amigo]

At the time that inittab is used, *no* user is logged in. Everything is run effectively as root during init, but root is not logged in. It's called Single User Mode. That's why $HOME evaluates to '/' -the default.