xdg-user-dir

tool to manage well known user directories

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xdg-user-dir.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
Ubuntu
apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xdg-user-dirs
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
CentOS
yum install xdg-user-dirs
Fedora
dnf install xdg-user-dirs
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
Raspbian
apt-get install xdg-user-dirs
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/xdg-user-dir

xdg-user-dirs

tool to manage well known user directories

xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage "well known" user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder. It also handles localization (i.e. translation) of the filenames. The way it works is that xdg-user-dirs-update is run very early in the login phase. This program reads a configuration file, and a set of default directories. It then creates localized versions of these directories in the users home directory and sets up a config file in $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/user-dirs.dirs (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config) that applications can read to find these directories.