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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not an environment variable. It's defined in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/user-dirs.dirs.

Though you can use the xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD command to get it automatically.