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

Jerome Quelin <jquellin@cpan.org<gt> Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

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. perl v5.36.0 2022-12-02 File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop(3pm)

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>.

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

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

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;