HOMEOF(1)

📦 version 2.9.9.2, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 HOMEOF(1) 💖

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual bestie, and it's about a tiny lil command called homeof and honestly? it's giving "small but mighty" ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

homeof — prints out a user's home directory, that's it, that's the whole vibe 🏠

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

homeof user

literally just the command and one username, no drama, no extra flags, periodt 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: homeof goes and finds the name of user's home directory, writes it on stdout, then exits 0. clean, simple, iconic 👑

if an error happens tho? 😭 it prints nothing on stdout — not a single crumb — and exits 111 with an explanatory message on stderr. so like, if you're scripting this, check that exit status, fr fr 🙈

heads up bestie: exit 111 is the failure signal here, and the actual explanation lives on stderr, not stdout. don't go looking for the message where the answer usually goes 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/homeof.html

go read the origin if you want the source-of-truth vibes 🫶

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

  • Laurent Bercot
  • Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

okay that's the whole page, it's short and sweet and honestly a little slay 🍓 this version came from Debian and it's dated February 11, 2021 — so yeah, a little vintage, but the vibes are timeless 💜 mwah, go print some home directories 🧚‍♀️✨

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