xdg-user-dir (1)
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Title: xdg-user-dir
Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
Date: 08/22/2017
Manual: User Commands
Source: XDG
Language: English
NAME
xdg-user-dir - Find an XDG user dirSYNOPSIS
- xdg-user-dir [NAME]
DESCRIPTION
xdg-user-dir
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.