if you run this from a root prompt, or as any other user whose home directory does not live at /home/$USER, it fails with the message "/home/root does not exist". Using the $HOME variable will prevent it from failing when the users home directory does not live at the expected path.
netson
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7 years ago
if you run this from a root prompt, or as any other user whose home directory does not live at /home/$USER, it fails with the message "/home/root does not exist". Using the $HOME variable will prevent it from failing when the users home directory does not live at the expected path.