File permissions?
Johnny Rosenberg
gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Sun Dec 27 16:26:33 UTC 2009
2009/12/26 nepal (PO) <nepal.roade at mypostoffice.co.uk>:
> On Friday 25 Dec 2009 18:28:20 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> Is there a special reason why the files have to be located there?
>> For most tasks, your personal files should be located somewhere in
>> your home directory (home folder), called $HOME, which is an
>> environment variable containing the address of your home folder.
>> The ”~” means the same thing. So ~/MyFolder is the same thing as
>> $HOME/MyFolder, which is the same thing as /home/Jim/MyFolder if
>> your user name is Jim. If you still want to place your file at
>> /usr/share/jedit/modes you have to do it with root permissions,
>> unless you want to change the owner of the folder.
>>
>
> This is incorrect.
>
> In a console type in "echo $HOME" not including the quotes and it will
> show the *full* path to your home folder which is /home/_username_.
>
> $HOME is an environment variable set up for each user of the system.
I think I actually mentioned that. If I didn't, someone else probably
did before I wrote.
Johnny Rosenberg
>
> nepal.
>
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