I am trying to write a shell script that takes the first argument
from the command line as the user to whom a file is placed in their home
directory. I can't seem to get this to run. Normally, it wouldn't be a big
deal, you'd just do
cp filename /home/$1
but what throws a monkey wrench into the works is that there are
several different home partitions some users are in home, others in
home1,home2,home3, etc. and the following doesn't work:
cp filename ~${1}/
because it interprets the ~ as a character rather than an operator.
Anyone have any ideas how I can get around this? Everytime I try to
run? Seems you can't combine the ~ with a variable.
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