Including output of environment variable in command line?

[Janina Sajka]

Charley:

I suspect he's talking BASH where $HOME is a user's top level file 
directory. For ordinary users this is nowhere near the root of the 
directory tree.
 On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Charles Crawford wrote:

> I don't know what language you are using.  Usually there is an 
> initialization of the variable such as store "home" to mydir
> and then you would use mydir as the variable to capture the input of the 
> user and if the default of home, the program would search for he associated 
> object of home when executing the operation at run time.  I only really 
> know Clipper but it would look like this:
> 
> Store "home" to mydir
> accept "  Where do you want to go? " to mydir
> goto mydir
> 
> 
>          Of course I have no idea of the context in which your are programming.
> 
> -- Charlie Crawford.
> At 02:18 PM 9/20/01 +00-02, you wrote:
> >Hello list, I used to know how to do this but can't think of it at the 
> >moment.  How does one go about including the output of an environment 
> >variable in a command line?  I thought it was something like the following 
> >command line example.
> >  'program --directory $HOME$/test' where $HOME$ is the variable I want to 
> > insert.  When I try this the program complains it can not find the directory.
> >
> >Any help on this would be appreciated.
> >
> >Doug
> >
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