How to get user directory in a cake build

Question

I need the user directory path (absolute) in my cake script, to mount the nuget cache of the build agent to the docker container, that builds the application. How do I get them?

Directory("~")

doesn't work.

Answer 1

Typically, on both Windows and *nix, the user home folder is stored in an environment variable. In which case, you should be able to do something like this:

Task("Default")
.Does(() =>
{
    if(IsRunningOnWindows()) {
        Information(EnvironmentVariable("HOMEPATH"));
    } 
    else 
    {
        Information(EnvironmentVariable("HOME"));
    }
});

Assuming the above contains what you want, you could then pass the result to Directory().

UPDATE:

Try the following:

Task("Default")
    .Does(() =>
{
    if(IsRunningOnWindows()) {
        Information("{0}{1}", EnvironmentVariable("HOMEDRIVE"), EnvironmentVariable("HOMEPATH"));
    } else {
        Information(EnvironmentVariable("HOME"));
    }
});