HOME -- Environmental Variable

User's home directory
HOME=home directory

The  environmental variable  HOME name's the  user's home  directory.  Some
commands use this  name by default if they require  the name of a directory
and  none is  supplied.   For example,  if  you type  the change  directory
command cd without an argument, it will change the current directory to the
one named by the HOME.

See Also

environmental variables

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