xdg-user-dir

Find an XDG user dir

xdg-user-dir [NAME]

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.

The XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable determines where the user-dirs.dirs file is located.