XDG\-USER\-DIR

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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-user-dirs-update(1)


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO