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Default Home Directory Per Operating System

System Path Variable
Microsoft Windows NT \WINNT\Profiles\ %UserProfile%
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and 2003 \Documents and Settings\
Microsoft Windows Vista and 7 \Users\
Unix-Based /home/ $HOME and ~/
Unix-Derived /var/users/
/u01/
/usr/
/user/
/users/
SunOS / Solaris /export/home/
Linux (FHS) /home/
AT&T Unix (original version) /usr/ $HOME
Mac OS X /Users/ $HOME and ~/, and path to home folder (in AppleScript)
OpenVMS : SYS$LOGIN

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