User Commands                          update-desktop-database(1)



NAME
     update-desktop-database - Desktop file caching utility

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

DESCRIPTION
     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  direc-
     tories 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.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -?, --help                      Show help options.



     -v, --verbose                   Turn on verbose output.



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



OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     filepath                The path to a  directory  or  direc-
                             tories containing a number of appli-
                             cation installed .desktop files.



EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0        Application exited successfully






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     1        Application exited with failure



FILES
     The following files are used by this application:

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



     /usr/share/applications         System desktop  file  direc-
                                     tory



ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

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


SEE ALSO
     update-mime-database(1), gnome-desktop-item-edit(1),  attri-
     butes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

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

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
















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