Stupid bash scripting question

[Kevin D. Clark]

Cole Tuininga writes:

> In other words, if I have something like:
>
> user="username"
> f="~${user}"
>
> I'd like $f to end up with the path to username's actual home.  As it
> is, it just has the value "~username".  What magic do I need to do on my
> f assignment line?!

user=username
f=`eval echo ~$user`

--kevin
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