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
	 DOCUMENTS
	 DOWNLOAD
	 MUSIC
	 PICTURES
	 PROJECTS
	 PUBLICSHARE
	 TEMPLATES
	 VIDEOS



FILES
       .PP  The	 values	 are  looked up in the user-dirs.dirs file. This file is
     created by the xdg-user-dirs-update utility.



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



EXIT STATUS
       .PP On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.



EXAMPLES
     Print the path of the current user's Downloads directory:


	 xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD

     Use in a shell script:


	 cd "$(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)"




SEE ALSO
       .PP xdg-user-dirs-update(1), user-dirs.dirs(5)



AUTHOR
     Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
	 Developer

XDG				   08/01/2026			 XDG-USER-DIR(1)