Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory without cgo
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 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.
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x86_64-linux | /gnu/store/h46kspndp9415zb5kv5wi43754sh81b1-go-github-com-mitchellh-go-homedir-1.0.0-0.ae18d6b.drv | ||
i686-linux | /gnu/store/mvcpzs3i7img0z9vbjh3srm94w22dsns-go-github-com-mitchellh-go-homedir-1.0.0-0.ae18d6b.drv |
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