File::HomeDir::Unix(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::HomeDir::Unix(3)

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

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;        #

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

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

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)

Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

Copyright 2017 - 2020 Jens Rehsack

Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.

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.

2024-09-01 perl v5.40.0