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/home/username (Home directory)

/home/username is often the home directory for the user whose name is username. However, it should not be assumed that this is always the case, rather, the libc functions getpwent and getpwent_r should be used to determine a user's home directory.

Start and login/logout scripts

Some start, login and logout script that might be found in a home directory include:

See also

A user's home directory can be set with usermod -d.
Some subdirectories found include:
~/bin (or also ~/.local/bin/) is sometimes referred to as the user's private /bin directory.
The equivalent of a home directory on Windows is C:\Users\<username>.

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