Re: How to determine current home directory -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hi Pat,

I found that the "home" directory is stored in the user profile, such
as '/home/patrick'. This appears to be the standard default
directory, but what if that is NOT the users directory.

Are you looking to retrieve the home directory or the current directory? Your subject, and the preceding paragraph are talking about the home directory (which is also "the user's directory", I guess) by contrast, the remainder of your message talks about the current directory.

How do I determine what the current directory is or is this even possible ?
Maybe there is no such thing as the current directory.

There's definitely such a thing!!

I want to do this in a clp and do some cpytoimpf of various files, but I
want to make sure where the files are actually going to.

I'm not sure I understand this. If this is a CLP, where are the file locations coming from? Asking a user? Are they stored in a file? Are they hard-coded in the application? How will retrieving the user's current (or home) directory help?

If you're confused about where files are being placed, why are you using relative paths (instead of absolute ones) to begin with?

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