user-dirs.dirs (5)

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    Title: user-dirs.dirs
   Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
     Date: 08/22/2017
   Manual: File Formats
   Source: XDG
 Language: English

NAME

DESCRIPTION

The $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is a text file that contains the user-specific values for the XDG user dirs. It is created and updated by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

This file contains lines of the form

XDG_NAME_DIR=VALUE

The following names are recognised:

DESKTOP

DOWNLOAD

TEMPLATES

PUBLICSHARE

DOCUMENTS

MUSIC

PICTURES

VIDEOS

VALUE must be of the form "$HOME/Path" or "/Path".

Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

The format of user-dirs.dirs is designed to allow direct sourcing of this file in shell scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

The user-dirs.defaults file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.

SEE ALSO

xdg-user-dirs-update(1)