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homeDirectory -- the home directory of the user

Description

In file operations, file names beginning with ~/ will have it replaced with the home directory.

i1 : homeDirectory

o1 = /home/m2user/

For the programmer

The object homeDirectory is a string.

The source of this document is in /build/macaulay2-88fgJW/macaulay2-1.25.11+ds/M2/Macaulay2/packages/Macaulay2Doc/ov_system.m2:1889:0.