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[Rob Marscher]

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
> I don't have a Mac, and I haven't turned up much useful in Google, so
> I'm hoping someone here has written a CLI PHP script for OS X.
> 
> I understand that you can't count on HOME to be set.  Is there a
> reliable way to find the user's home directory on OS X in PHP?

On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Federico Ulfo wrote:
> $home_dir = exec( "cd ~
>     pwd" );


FWIW, $_ENV['HOME'] is set on my laptop.

Here's Federico's technique on one line with backticks:

$home = `cd ~; pwd`;

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