It’s a Bash feature called “tilde expansion“. It’s a function of the shell, not the OS. You’ll get different behavior with csh, for example. To answer your question about where the information comes from: your home directory comes from the variable $HOME (no matter what you store there), while other user’s homes are retrieved real-time … Read more
Of course, never fails. Found the solution about a minute after posting the above question… solution for those that may have had the same issue: ContextWrapper.getFilesDir() Found here.
You’re going to be disappointed: %userprofile% You can use other terminals, though. Powershell, which I believe you can get on XP and later (and comes preinstalled with Win7), allows you to use ~ for home directory.
The command used to launch git bash is: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” I just tried the following in a DOS session: C:\>C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” VonC@XXX /c/ $ echo $HOME /c/Users/VonC By default, $HOME$%HOMEPATH%, but if I force %HOME%: set HOME=/another/path and then launch the same bash session: C:\>C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” … Read more
As mentioned in a more recent answer, the preferred way is now simply: const homedir = require(‘os’).homedir(); [Original Answer] Why not use the USERPROFILE environment variable on win32? function getUserHome() { return process.env[(process.platform == ‘win32’) ? ‘USERPROFILE’ : ‘HOME’]; }
You want to use os.path.expanduser. This will ensure it works on all platforms: from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser(“~”) If you’re on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home(): from pathlib import Path home = str(Path.home())
I think os.path.expanduser(path) could be helpful. On Unix and Windows, return the argument with an initial component of ~ or ~user replaced by that user‘s home directory. On Unix, an initial ~ is replaced by the environment variable HOME if it is set; otherwise the current user’s home directory is looked up in the password … Read more
You want to use os.path.expanduser. This will ensure it works on all platforms: from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser(“~”) If you’re on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home(): from pathlib import Path home = str(Path.home())
The bug you reference (bug 4787391) has been fixed in Java 8. Even if you are using an older version of Java, the System.getProperty(“user.home”) approach is probably still the best. The user.home approach seems to work in a very large number of cases. A 100% bulletproof solution on Windows is hard, because Windows has a … Read more