"which" command does not expand "~" in path

[Sven Köhler]

>>But is there any command that give's me the home for a given username?
> 
> bash -c "echo ~username"

Oh well, beside bash (and any other big programm called shell)

> Or you could write one using the getpwnam() call (better yet, the
> reentrant versions, getpwnam_r()), and submit it to, say, cygutils (since
> sh-utils is no longer being actively developed).

I just wondered how to write a "correct" shell-script that runs with 
/bin/sh, and it seems there is no way "shell-script"-way to figure out a 
  user's homedir.


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