File::HomeDir::Unix

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

File::HomeDir::Unix - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix

SYNOPSIS

  use File::HomeDir;
  
  # Find directories for the current user
  $home    = File::HomeDir->my_home;        # /home/mylogin
  $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;     # All of these will... 
  $docs    = File::HomeDir->my_documents;   # ...default to home...
  $music   = File::HomeDir->my_music;       # ...directory
  $pics    = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;    #
  $videos  = File::HomeDir->my_videos;      #
  $data    = File::HomeDir->my_data;        #

DESCRIPTION

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

SUPPORT

See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.

AUTHORS

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

Sean M. Burke <sburke@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.