From 4103abc685101d1f6c67adea876138c2d6706fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:12:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add `home-path` to `$nu` (#468)

---
 crates/nu-engine/src/eval.rs | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/nu-engine/src/eval.rs b/crates/nu-engine/src/eval.rs
index 8e85b1c954..73f1d801f4 100644
--- a/crates/nu-engine/src/eval.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-engine/src/eval.rs
@@ -520,6 +520,16 @@ pub fn eval_variable(
             }
         }
 
+        if let Some(home_path) = nu_path::home_dir() {
+            if let Some(home_path_str) = home_path.to_str() {
+                output_cols.push("home-path".into());
+                output_vals.push(Value::String {
+                    val: home_path_str.into(),
+                    span,
+                })
+            }
+        }
+
         if let Ok(cwd) = std::env::var("PWD") {
             output_cols.push("pwd".into());
             output_vals.push(Value::String { val: cwd, span })