File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME

File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop - Find your home and other directories on FreeDesktop.org Unix

DESCRIPTION

This module provides implementations for determining common user directories. In normal usage this module will always be used via File::HomeDir.

This module can operate only when the command "xdg-user-dir" is available and executable, which is typically achieved by installed a package named "xdg-user-dirs" or similar.

One can find the latest spec at <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>.

SYNOPSIS

  use File::HomeDir;
  
  # Find directories for the current user
  $home     = File::HomeDir->my_home;        # /home/mylogin
  $desktop  = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;
  $docs     = File::HomeDir->my_documents;
  $music    = File::HomeDir->my_music;
  $pics     = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;
  $videos   = File::HomeDir->my_videos;
  $data     = File::HomeDir->my_data;
  $config   = File::HomeDir->my_config;
  
  # Some undocumented ones, expect they don't work - use with caution
  $download    = File::HomeDir->my_download;
  $publicshare = File::HomeDir->my_publicshare;
  $templates   = File::HomeDir->my_templates;
  $cache       = File::HomeDir->my_cache;

AUTHORS

Jerome Quelin <jquellin@cpan.org<gt>

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.