Section 1 · User commands
xdg-user-dir.1
Package: xdg-user-dirs
XDG−USER−DIR
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO
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.dirs 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)