Re^3: Get home dir from shell

~$ 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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Re^4: Get home dir from shell by hdb (Monsignor) on Apr 04, 2013 at 06:36 UTC
Two more: c:\>perl -e "print `echo \%HOME\%` " c:\brocmi c:\>perl -e "print `echo %HOME%` " crocmi [download]	[reply] [d/l]