1File::UserDirs(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    File::UserDirs(3)
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NAME

6       File::UserDirs - Find extra media and documents directories
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VERSION

9       version 0.09
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SYNOPSIS

12        use File::UserDirs qw(:all);
13        print xdg_desktop_dir; # e.g. /home/user/Desktop
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DESCRIPTION

16       This module can be used to find directories as informally specified by
17       the Freedesktop.org xdg-user-dirs software. This gives a mechanism to
18       locate extra directories for media and documents files.
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FUNCTIONS

21       May be exported on request.  Also the group ":all" is defined which
22       exports all methods.
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24   xdg_desktop_dir
25        my $dir = xdg_desktop_dir;
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27       Returns the desktop directory. Unless changed by the user, this is the
28       directory Desktop in the home directory.
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30   xdg_documents_dir
31        my $dir = xdg_documents_dir;
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33       Returns the documents directory. Unless changed by the user, this is
34       the home directory.
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36   xdg_download_dir
37        my $dir = xdg_download_dir;
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39       Returns the download directory. Unless changed by the user, this is the
40       home directory.
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42   xdg_music_dir
43        my $dir = xdg_music_dir;
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45       Returns the music directory. Unless changed by the user, this is the
46       home directory.
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48   xdg_pictures_dir
49        my $dir = xdg_pictures_dir;
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51       Returns the pictures directory. Unless changed by the user, this is the
52       home directory.
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54   xdg_publicshare_dir
55        my $dir = xdg_publicshare_dir;
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57       Returns the public share directory. Unless changed by the user, this is
58       the home directory.
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60   xdg_templates_dir
61        my $dir = xdg_templates_dir;
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63       Returns the templates directory. Unless changed by the user, this is
64       the home directory.
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66   xdg_videos_dir
67        my $dir = xdg_videos_dir;
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69       Returns the videos directory. Unless changed by the user, this is the
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DIAGNOSTICS

73       ""xdg-user-dir" failed to start: %s"
74           The executable "xdg-user-dir" could not be run, most likely because
75           it was not installed. See "DEPENDENCIES".
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CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

78       The location of the directories can be specified by the user in the
79       file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs. It is a shell file setting a
80       number of environment variables. To find the exact pathname from Perl,
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83        use File::BaseDir qw(config_home);
84        print config_home('user-dirs.dirs');
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86   Example customised user-dirs.dirs
87        XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Workspace"
88        XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Files"
89        XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Files/Downloads"
90        XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Files/Audio"
91        XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Files/Images"
92        XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/public_html"
93        XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Files/Document templates"
94        XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Files/Video"
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DEPENDENCIES

97       This module requires the executable xdg-user-dir from the package
98       "xdg-user-dirs". Source code is available from
99       <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/>.
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AUTHORS

102       •   Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>
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104       •   Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
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107       This software is copyright (c) 2003-2021 by Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus
108       [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>.
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110       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
111       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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