in reply to Get home dir from shell

since it considers $HOME as a variable
Which is why you escape it: perl -e 'print `echo \$HOME`'

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^2: Get home dir from shell
by vit (Friar) on Apr 03, 2013 at 15:13 UTC
    It will print $HOME
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      moo@cow>perl -e 'print `echo \$HOME`'
/home/moo

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      ~$ perl -e 'print `echo $HOME`'

~$ perl -e 'print `echo \$HOME`'
/home/kennethk
~$ perl -e 'print `echo \\$HOME`'
\
~$ perl -e 'print `echo \\\$HOME`'
$HOME
~$ perl -e '$q = chr 39; print `echo $q\$HOME$q`'
$HOME
~$ perl -e '$loc = q{\$HOME}; print `echo $loc`'
$HOME

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      Try outputting your command to make sure it's what you think it is.

      #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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        Two more: 

        c:\>perl -e "print `echo \%HOME\%` "
c:\brocmi

c:\>perl -e "print `echo %HOME%` "
crocmi

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