On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:32 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:11 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > In order to make it really easy for scripts to use this we store the > > user settings in a form that is compatible with /bin/sh. This means > > you can use them as simple as: > > source ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs > > echo $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR > > That works for scripts that are part of the distro, but apps that need > to work on either pre- or post- xdg-user-dirs-compliant systems would > need something like > > test -f ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs && source ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs > echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-~} > > (And shouldn't "~/.config" be "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}"?) > > Probably best to provide a simple shell function people can copy+paste > into their script, and then just do > > echo `xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD`
This seems to work: #!/bin/sh test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs if [ "x$1" == "xDESKTOP" ]; then eval echo \${XDG_${1}_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop} else eval echo \${XDG_${1}_DIR:-$HOME} fi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's a globe-trotting albino sorceror on the wrong side of the law. She's an artistic goth mercenary in the witness protection program. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg