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, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009 - 2011 Jerome Quelin.

Some parts copyright 2010 Adam Kennedy.

Some parts copyright 2017 - 2020 Jens Rehsack

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.