xdg-user-dir - Find an XDG user dir

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  FILES  ENVIRONMENT  SEE ALSO 

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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.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)

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