File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2012-10-19
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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.

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;

AUTHORS

Jerome Quelin <jquellin@cpan.org<gt>

Adam Kennedy <adamk@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.