How do I use the user home directory in a Github actions workflow that runs on Windows?

Question

I'm using the Github actions workflow that runs on windows-latest and I'd like to use the user home directory variable instead of using an hardcoded path C:\Users\runneradmin. On windows this is normally available in a cmd as %USERPROFILE%. But using %USERPROFILE% fails in the Github actions as the syntax seems unsupported. Also tried : ${{ env.USERPROFILE }} which was empty. and $env:USERPROFILE which resulted in syntax error.

user_8315843 · Answer

The answer is $HOME :

steps:
- name: Echo home
  run: 
    echo $HOME

Log:

Run echo $HOME
C:\Users\runneradmin

How do I use the user home directory in a Github actions workflow that runs on Windows?

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