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MAN Solaris - update-desktop-database (1)

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update-desktop-database - Desktop file caching utility

CONTENTS

update-desktop-database [--verbose] [--quiet] [filepath]

update-desktop-database creates cache files for desktop file MIME type mapping for improved MIME lookup performance.

It expects to be given the path to a directory or directories containing a number of application installed .desktop files, e.g. /usr/share/applications, and writes a mime-info.cache containing cached information about the MIME types that each application can handle. If no directory is provided, this utility will use a default directory list as specified in the FreeDesktop MIME specification. This cache file is used to avoid a lot of system call and disk seek overhead in a number of applications.

The following options are supported:

-v, --verbose Turn on verbose output.

-q, --quiet Do not provide any output.

The following operands are supported:

filepath The path to a directory or directories containing a number of application installed .desktop files.

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

1 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/update-desktop-database The command-line executable for the application.

/usr/share/applications System desktop file directory

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs
Interface stability	Committed

update-mime-database(1), gnome-desktop-item-edit(1),

Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide and GNOME System Administration Guide for your platform.

Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.

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