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.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) XDG XDG-USER-DIR(1)