[Techtalk] problem with changing directory in a script

[Miriam English]

OMG! Thank you Amanda and Little Girl. I didn't know about the $HOME 
variable. A nice portable solution. Wonderful. :)

On 15/09/15 00:57, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm not sure if these would be of any use, but both of them take me
> to the Desktop in Linux Mint MATE:
>
> test=~/Desktop;cd $test;
>
> test="$HOME/Desktop";cd $test;
>
> Quotes are often the bane of my existence. (:
>

On 15/09/15 01:07, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
 > I always use $HOME for ~ in scripts...
 >
 > Amanda


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