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Edit a string with the users preferred text editor using $VISUAL or $ENVIRONMENT

published version 3.1.0, 6 years ago1317 dependents licensed under $MIT
68,460,700

Get paths for storing things like data, config, cache, etc

published version 3.0.0, 3 years ago976 dependents licensed under $MIT
61,454,725

Convert a tilde path to an absolute path: `~/dev` → `/Users/sindresorhus/dev`

published version 5.0.0, 2 years ago865 dependents licensed under $MIT
37,310,958

Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.

published version 2.0.2, 8 years ago403 dependents licensed under $MIT
27,406,553

Resolve a directory that is either local, global or in the user's home directory.

published version 1.0.1, 7 years ago275 dependents licensed under $MIT
24,745,175

Get the system locale

published version 6.0.2, 3 years ago674 dependents licensed under $MIT
17,683,870

Check if the process is running as root user, for example, one started with `sudo`

published version 3.0.0, 4 years ago615 dependents licensed under $MIT
14,450,974

Get the user home directory with fallback to the system temp directory

published version 4.0.0, 4 years ago251 dependents licensed under $MIT
5,937,187

Convert an absolute path to a tilde path: `/Users/sindresorhus/dev` → `~/dev`

published version 3.0.0, 3 years ago603 dependents licensed under $MIT
5,937,801

Parse a github URL into an object.

published version 1.0.3, 7 months ago315 dependents licensed under $MIT
4,017,706

A cross-platform path to the user's home

published version 1.0.1, 3 months ago134 dependents licensed under $MIT
2,258,475

Get metadata on the default editor or a specific editor

published version 1.1.0, 3 years ago30 dependents licensed under $MIT
2,785,958

Get a GitHub username from an email address

published version 8.0.0, a year ago227 dependents licensed under $MIT
2,594,434

Determine (XDG-compatible) paths for storing application files (cache, config, data, etc)

published version 8.3.0, 2 years ago29 dependents licensed under $MIT
2,096,157

Fastest, most accurate & effecient user agent string parser, uses Browserscope's research for parsing

published version 2.3.0, 7 years ago470 dependents licensed under $MIT
1,872,684

Try to downgrade the permissions of a process with root privileges and block access if it fails

published version 2.0.0, 4 years ago898 dependents licensed under $MIT
699,704

Block users from running your app with root permissions

published version 5.0.0, a year ago67 dependents licensed under $MIT
710,158

Get the username of the current user

published version 7.0.0, a year ago318 dependents licensed under $MIT
845,939

Get the passwd user entry from a username or user identifier (UID)

published version 4.0.0, 3 years ago16 dependents licensed under $MIT
768,329

Get the fullname of the current user

published version 5.0.0, a year ago77 dependents licensed under $MIT
743,135