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TLDR: XDG-USER-DIR (tldr-pages)

Retrieve XDG user directory locations.

  • Display the home directory for the current user
    xdg-user-dir
  • Display the location of a user directory
    xdg-user-dir {{DESKTOP|DOWNLOAD|TEMPLATES|PUBLICSHARE|DOCUMENTS|MUSIC|PICTURES|VIDEOS|...}}
XDG-USER-DIR(1)                             User Commands                            XDG-USER-DIR(1)



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.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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