10-21-2002
find / -name <filename>
will make a search for the file in the whole of root dir... if you don't have read permissions to most of the sub-dirs which is mostly the case, you will have to see lot of "permission denied"
the ~ stands for the users directory like /home/user/ , so that ~buddy becomes /home/user/buddy
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xdg-user-dir(1) User Commands xdg-user-dir(1)
NAME
xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.
SYNOPSIS
xdg-user-dir DIR
DESCRIPTION
xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :
${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs
OPERANDS
Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:
DESKTOP
DOWNLOAD
TEMPLATES
PUBLICSHARE
DOCUMENTS
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:
HOME.
Other environment variable that are used are:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dir
XDG Directory expansion utility.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs
Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Location of user's documents directory
% xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS
/home/user/Documents
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxdg-user-dirs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
More information can be found at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008
SunOS 5.11 03 Apr 2008 xdg-user-dir(1)