Perl module placing text in home folder

Question

I am trying to create a Perl module with ExtUtils::MakeMaker. When installing it along with the module I need to place a text file containing some information in the user's home folder. How can I do this?

I'd be really unimpressed if a module started writing writing to ~/ during its install. Don't do that. — Quentin, Jul 23 '13 at 13:37
Makefile.PL is just a Perl program. You can do anything you like in it. — brian d foy, Jul 23 '13 at 15:42
brian d foy, is absolutely right. I could simply put some codes in Makefile.Pl to write a text file in the Home folder.Thank you!! — dileepmani, Jul 23 '13 at 23:53

Demnogonis · Answer 1 · 2013-07-23T14:51:41.120

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You could try something like this

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use File::HomeDir;

my $home = File::HomeDir->my_home;

open my $fh, '>', "$home/foo.txt";
print $fh 'bar';
close $fh;

I didn't test this because I'm currently under windows where File::HomeDir is not completely implemented

edited Jul 23 '13 at 14:51

answered Jul 23 '13 at 13:38

Demnogonis

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[File a bug!](https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-HomeDir) Unspecific complaints on a forum do not count. – daxim Jul 23 '13 at 14:35
You don't need to file a bug for that. It's documented already. – brian d foy Jul 23 '13 at 15:41

Perl module placing text in home folder

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