Why can't I move a file from ~/process.desktop to ~/.config/autostart/?

I have a script that simply downloads a package, installs it, then it shoots the "process.desktop" to ~/.config/autostart to add it to XFCE's startup processes.

Everything works but开发者_JAVA百科 moving the process.desktop to ~/.config/autostart/

Here is my code:

mv ~/process.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

It returns this error:

mv: cannot stat '/username/process.desktop' : No such file or directory

Note, the download goes to /home/username/ and it is installed [successfully] there. process.desktop is also in /home/username/

Thanks for any insight, this is the last component of my script I have to fix!

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Weird - you would certainly expect ~ to expand to /home/username.

If one thing doesn't work, try another:

mv $HOME/process.desktop $HOME/.config/autostart

Question:

• Are you sure you want to replace the existing autostart with the new file, rather than, say, adding the new file to the end of the existing autostart file?

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The tilde path component expands to the current value of $HOME. An example under bash:

$ echo $HOME
/home/user
$ echo ~
/home/user
$ HOME=/tmp
$ echo ~
/tmp

Have you edited the value of $HOME? Is it possible that you created this account with the wrong home directory path? You can check that by:

grep username /etc/passwd

or

finger username

If that is the case, you can fix it with the usermod command or just edit /etc/passwd directly.

sudo usermod -d /home/username username