File::HomeDir::Darwin::Cocoa(3pm)

File::HomeDir::Darwin::Cocoa3pm

Find your home and other directories on darwin (os x)

Usage

  use File::HomeDir;
  
  # Find directories for the current user
  $home    = File::HomeDir->my_home;      # /Users/mylogin
  $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;   # /Users/mylogin/Desktop
  $docs    = File::HomeDir->my_documents; # /Users/mylogin/Documents
  $music   = File::HomeDir->my_music;     # /Users/mylogin/Music
  $pics    = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;  # /Users/mylogin/Pictures
  $videos  = File::HomeDir->my_videos;    # /Users/mylogin/Movies
  $data    = File::HomeDir->my_data;      # /Users/mylogin/Library/Application Support

Overview

This module provides Darwin-specific implementations for determining common user directories using Cocoa API through Mac::SystemDirectory. In normal usage this module will always be used via File::HomeDir.

Theoretically, this should return the same paths as both of the other Darwin drivers.

Because this module requires Mac::SystemDirectory, if the module is not installed, File::HomeDir will fall back to File::HomeDir::Darwin.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8–9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12–13
  6. Arch

From perl-file-homedir 1.006-8 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.