What is the name of the shell variable that holds the name of your home directory? How can you change your home directory unde a LINUX system?
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The name of the shell variable is HOME under Bash and home under the TC shell. You can change your home directory under LINUX by using the HOME=new_dicrectory_name command, followed by the export HOME command. The following Bash session gives a sample run of these commands.
$ HOME=/home/faculty/msarwar/courses
$ export HOME
$ echo $HOME
/home/faculty/msarwar/courses
$
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