Instead, the shell usually substitutes ~ or ~user. Look at this the output of these commands: echo ~ echo "~"
This is probably common knowledge, but I learned last night that sh never expands ~. Under sh, the two lines above yield the same output, simply ~.
I can confirm that for cygwin.
The "common knowledge" may be, because the most Linux-systems have sh linked to bash. Cygwin seems to have a separate "sh" installed.
But is there any command that give's me the home for a given username?
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