commit | 1f6da4a72e57d4e7edd4a7295a585e0a3999a2d4 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Fri Apr 17 15:12:18 2015 -0700 |
committer | Mitchell Hashimoto <xmitchx@gmail.com> | Fri Apr 17 15:12:18 2015 -0700 |
tree | 246ba61f04c32a66c59b5e1286d56578dd0b744b | |
parent | 7d2d8c8a4e078ce3c58736ab521a40b37a504c52 [diff] | |
parent | f47e1fe91537b54ad25e8837235e95b8d98f8965 [diff] |
Merge pull request #6 from Matt3o12/master Fixed a bug which would expand string incorrectly under *NIX.
This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.
Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir()
to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand()
to expand the ~
in a path to the home directory.
Why not just use os/user
? The built-in os/user
package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user
is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.