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xdg-user-dir (1) Linux Manual Page

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xdg-user-dir – Find an XDG user dir

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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:

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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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