rename home directory

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > But, as I said, it might not work so well, because of applications,
> > which store path names in their configuration files.
>
> And reinstalling those won't help? Or at least uninstalling and then
> installing again?
>
> I suppose that sed in some kind of loop could solve the problem
> otherwise, couldn't it?
>

You could grep (or rgrep) through the directory looking for configs that
match the old directory name, and update them. Sounds dodgy. Why not just
create a user with the new name, migrate your data over, and use that?

-- 
Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood
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