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I am making a script and I am looking for a way to get the variable names for Desktop, Music, Documents, Pictures and others Folders. Depending on the language they change. For example Desktop in Spanish is Escritorio. So how can I get the folder directory without needing to find out what language the user is using or having to make several IF statements for each language.


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There is a tool called xdg-user-dir that retrieves user directories paths



documents_path=$(xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS)

echo $documents_path


From the docs:




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




I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, I don't really know if this is available in previous releases.


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