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HOME

HOME is an environment variable for a user's login directory. It is passed to a process when the process starts and copied to a child created with fork.

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Syntax

HOME=<directory>

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  • environ
  • execve(2)
  • fork(2)
  • getenv(3)
  • setenv(3)
  • unsetenv(3)
  • export

Source: environ(7) - Linux manual page. Checked 2026-11-03.