user-dirs.dirs

USER-DIRS.DIRS(5) File Formats USER-DIRS.DIRS(5)

NAME

   user-dirs.dirs - settings for XDG user dirs

DESCRIPTION

   The $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is a text file that contains the user-specific values for the XDG user dirs. It is created and updated by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

   This file contains lines of the form

       XDG_NAME_DIR=VALUE

   The following names are recognised:
       DESKTOP
       DOWNLOAD
       TEMPLATES
       PUBLICSHARE
       DOCUMENTS
       MUSIC
       PICTURES
       VIDEOS

   VALUE must be of the form "$HOME/Path" or "/Path".

   Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

   The format of user-dirs.dirs is designed to allow direct sourcing of this file in shell scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
       The user-dirs.defaults file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.

SEE ALSO

   xdg-user-dirs-update(1)

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