have to determine all users home directories - tilde scripting problem

Question

Assume someuser has a home directory /home/someuser

NAME=someuser

In bash - what expression to I use combining tilde (~) and $NAME to return the users home d

Answer 1

Interesting difference between bash and csh, where ~$VARNAME actually does what you'd expect!

This is ugly, but it seems to work in bash:

homedir=`eval "echo ~$USERNAME"`

Now $homedir holds the home directory associated with $USERNAME.