File permissions?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/12/26 nepal (PO) <nepal.roade at mypostoffice.co.uk>:
> On Friday 25 Dec 2009 18:28:20 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> Is there a special reason why the files have to be located there?
>>  For most tasks, your personal files should be located somewhere in
>>  your home directory (home folder), called $HOME, which is an
>>  environment variable containing the address of your home folder.
>>  The ”~” means the same thing. So ~/MyFolder is the same thing as
>>  $HOME/MyFolder, which is the same thing as /home/Jim/MyFolder if
>>  your user name is Jim. If you still want to place your file at
>>  /usr/share/jedit/modes you have to do it with root permissions,
>>  unless you want to change the owner of the folder.
>>
>
> This is incorrect.
>
> In a console type in "echo $HOME" not including the quotes and it will
> show the *full* path to your home folder which is /home/_username_.
>
> $HOME is an environment variable set up for each user of the system.
>

And that's not what I said?
$HOME/ is in my case /home/guraknugen/
~/ is in my case /home/guraknugen/

What's the difference?

Of course I don't mean it is exactly the same thing, because it never
can be: $HOME is 5 characters, ~ is one, so already that is a
difference…

Johnny Rosenberg


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