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XDG-USER-DIR(1) | User Commands | XDG-USER-DIR(1) |
NAME¶
xdg-user-dir - Find an XDG user dir
SYNOPSIS¶
xdg-user-dir [NAME]
DESCRIPTION¶
xdg-user-dir looks up the current path for one of the special XDG user dirs.
This command expects the name of an XDG user dir as argument. The possible names are:
DESKTOP
DOWNLOAD
TEMPLATES
PUBLICSHARE
DOCUMENTS
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
FILES¶
The values are looked up in the user-dirs.dir file. This file is created by the xdg-user-dirs-update utility.
ENVIRONMENT¶
The XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable determines where the user-dirs.dirs file is located.
SEE ALSO¶
XDG |