On 1/02/2011, at 7:19 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote: Lots of good advice snipped > 12. Tell your users emphatically that they should use $HOME anywhere > they're tempted to hardwire their home directory path into a > script. :-) Although this is still painful for any users who might have compiled their own software. (libraries, etc) In some environments this can be common.