How to get the path to the Windows user's home directory (/mnt/c/Users/username) from within WSL?

Question

I need to get the path to the Windows user's home directory /mnt/c/Users/username from within WSL, is it stored somewhere?

If not, is username stored somewhere? I'll just assume the /mnt/c/Users part doesn't change.

Thanks!

Answer 1

vGet it using cmd.exe and parse it to WSL path using wslpath (requires an updated WSL with wslpath installed):

Bash

WIN_HOME_RAW="$(cmd.exe /c "<nul set /p=%UserProfile%" 2>/dev/null)"
WIN_HOME="$(wslpath $WIN_HOME_RAW)"

Fish

set WIN_HOME_RAW (cmd.exe /c "<nul set /p=%UserProfile%" 2>/dev/null)
set -gx WIN_HOME (wslpath $WIN_HOME_RAW)

Answer 2

You may simply use wslpath and wslvar together as below:

$ wslpath "$(wslvar USERPROFILE)"

which will return something like this:

/mnt/c/Users/{USERNAME}