https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir

Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory without cgo.
https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir

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Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory without cgo.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir
• Owner: mitchellh
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-08-19T18:44:22.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-21T10:31:41.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T00:02:44.518Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 1,390
• Watchers: 17
• Forks: 112
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# go-homedir

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.