hi ralf. On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 04:44 -0400, shawn wilson wrote:You could probably do: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $appHi Shawn, that's great, thank you very much! I can add this to my next audio session scripts, so no searching for hidden configs anymore, for apps that don't allow to set a path by the app. No backup and restore of /home and copying configs needed for a single song anymore.
maybe i'm not understanding something. that would not be too surprising.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ echo $USER $HOME rocketmouse /home/rocketmouse [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/ gedit Password: -bash: HOME=/mnt/music/: No such file or directory
i would expect $ HOME=/mnt/music gedit to do what you want. there is also the env command. but as far as i can see, bash alone is sufficient here. -wes