Where is my home directory located?
Where a user's home directory is located varies from platform to platform and among the users on a single computer. But the actual location of the home directory is available through special environment variables:- Unix/Linux
$HOME - Windows
%USERPROFILE% - Cygwin
$USERPROFILE
In order to find out where these environment variables actually point to, do the following:
- on Unix/Linux, open a terminal and type the following command
echo $HOME - on Windows, open a command-prompt and type the following command
echo %USERPROFILE% - on Cygwin, open a bash and type the following command
echo $USERPROFILE
