File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop(3)
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>
SEE ALSO
File::HomeDir(3), File::HomeDir::Win32(3) (legacy)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2009 - 2011 Jerome Quelin.
Some parts copyright 2010 Adam Kennedy.
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.
perl v5.30.0 2018-05-02 File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop(3)
file-homedir 1.4.0 - Generated Sun Jul 19 15:52:10 CDT 2020