1User(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation User(3)
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6 User - API for locating user information regardless of OS
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9 use User;
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11 my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new
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13 -file => sprintf("%s/%s", User->Home, ".ncfg"),
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17 print "Your login is ", User->Login, "\n";
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20 This module is allows applications to retrieve per-user
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24 Home
25 Returns a location that can be expected to be a users "Home"
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28 While one way of writing this would be to check for operating
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40 In other words, if $HOME is defined in the user's environment, then
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44 A contribution for Macintosh (or any other number of OS/arch
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48 Returns login id of user on either Unix or NT by checking
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52 File::HomeDir seems to be a very well-done update of the same concept
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56 Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002-2010 Terrence Brannon. All rights
57 reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it
58 and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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60 License: GPL, Artistic, available in the Debian Linux Distribution at
61 /usr/share/common-licenses/{GPL,Artistic}
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64 T.M. Brannon, tbone@cpan.org
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66 I am grateful for additions by Rob Napier and Malcom Nooning.
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69 I would like to offer profuse thanks to my fellow perl monk at
70 www.perlmonks.org, the_slycer, who told me where HOME could be found on
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73 I would also like to thank Bob Armstrong for providing me with the text
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