// Package homedir implements a portable function to determine current user's homedir. package homedir import ( "errors" "path/filepath" "sync" ) // DisableCache will disable caching of the home directory. Caching is enabled // by default. var DisableCache bool var homedirCache string var cacheLock sync.RWMutex // Dir returns the home directory for the executing user. // // This uses an OS-specific method for discovering the home directory. // An error is returned if a home directory cannot be detected. func Dir() (string, error) { if !DisableCache { cacheLock.RLock() cached := homedirCache cacheLock.RUnlock() if cached != "" { return cached, nil } } cacheLock.Lock() defer cacheLock.Unlock() // Determine OS speific current homedir. result, err := dir() if err != nil { return "", err } // Cache for future lookups. homedirCache = result return result, nil } // Expand expands the path to include the home directory if the path // is prefixed with `~`. If it isn't prefixed with `~`, the path is // returned as-is. func Expand(path string) (string, error) { if len(path) == 0 { return path, nil } if path[0] != '~' { return path, nil } if len(path) > 1 && path[1] != '/' && path[1] != '\\' { return "", errors.New("cannot expand user-specific home dir") } dir, err := Dir() if err != nil { return "", err } return filepath.Join(dir, path[1:]), nil }