man File::BaseDir () - use the freedesktop basedir spec
NAME
File::BaseDir - use the freedesktop basedir spec
SYNOPSIS
use File::BaseDir qw/xdg_data_files/;
for ( xdg_data_files('mime/globs') ) {
# do something
}
DESCRIPTION
This module can be used to find directories and files as specified by the XDG Base Directory Specification. It takes care of defaults and uses File::Spec to make the output platform specific.
This module forked from File::MimeInfo.
For this module the XDG basedir specification 0.6 was used.
EXPORT
None by default, but all methods can be exported on demand.
METHODS
Simple constructor to allow Object Oriented use of this module. Returns either CW$ENV{XDG_DATA_HOME} or it's default value. Returns either CW$ENV{XDG_DATA_DIRS} or it's default value. Searches for CW$file in all CWXDG_DATA_DIRS and only returns existing readable files. The file path can also be given as a list. Returns either CW$ENV{XDG_CONFIG_HOME} or it's default value. Returns either CW$ENV{XDG_CONFIG_DIRS} or it's default value. Searches for CW$file in all CWXDG_CONFIG_DIRS and only returns existing readable files. The file path can also be given as a list. Returns either CW$ENV{XDG_CACHE_HOME} or it's default value.
BUGS
Please mail the author if you encounter any bugs.
AUTHOR
Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2003 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
<http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/basedir-spec/>