Hi, i am trying to create a file in ~/.myopts/myopts.yaml but, no go. Trying using $HOME/.myopts/myopts.yaml does not work either. Only specifying manually /home/me/.myopts/myopts.yaml but that is no solution. Is there any method to get me the path to the user account running the script ? Regards, -- pedro mg ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux] ubuntu linux edgy-eft 2.6.17-10-386 #2