std.env.home_directory
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fn pub home_directory -> Option[Path] {
# Rather than performing all sorts of magical incantations to get the home
# directory, we're just going to require that HOME is set.
#
# If the home is explicitly set to an empty string we still ignore it, because
# there's no scenario in which Some("") is useful.
match get('HOME') {
case Ok(v) if v.size > 0 -> Option.Some(Path.new(v))
case _ -> Option.None
}
}
fn pub static home_directory -> Option[Path]
Returns the path to the current user's home directory.
Examples
Obtaining the home directory of a user:
import std.env
env.home_directory # => Option.Some('/home/alice')