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UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)   General Commands Manual  UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)

NAME
     update-desktop-database  -  Build	cache  database of MIME types handled by
     desktop files

SYNOPSIS
     update-desktop-database [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [DIRECTORY...]

DESCRIPTION
     The update-desktop-database program is a tool to build a cache database  of
     the MIME types handled by desktop files.

     The  cache  database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled by
     desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop files that
     can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the  work  of	applica-
     tions  that  need to find an application that can open a document of a spe-
     cific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse all the  desktop
     files existing on the system, and can instead parse this cache database.

     If  no  DIRECTORY	is specified as argument, the desktop files that will be
     processed are the ones installed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications.

     If both the --quiet and --verbose options are used, then --verbose will  be
     ignored.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -q, --quiet
	    Do	not  display  any  information	about  processing  and	updating
	    progress.

     -v, --verbose
	    Display more information about processing and updating progress.

NOTES
     If an invalid MIME type is met, it will be ignored and the creation of  the
     cache database will continue.

     The  format  of the cache database is a simple desktop entry format, with a
     MIME Cache group, containing one key per MIME type. The  key  name  is  the
     MIME  type,  and  the key value is the list of desktop file that can handle
     this MIME type.

     The order of the desktop files found for a MIME type  is  not  significant.
     Therefore, an external mechanism must be used to determine what is the pre-
     ferred desktop file for a MIME type.

EXAMPLE
     Here is a simple example of a cache database:

	     [MIME Cache]
	     application/x-shellscript=gedit.desktop;
	     text/plain=gedit.desktop;gvim.desktop;
	     video/webm=totem.desktop;

     This  cache database is created with three desktop files, each containing a
     MimeType key:

	     gedit.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;application/x-shellscript;
	     gvim.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;
	     totem.desktop: MimeType=video/webm;

FILES
     $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/mimeinfo.cache

	    This file is the cache database created by update-desktop-database.

BUGS
     If you find bugs in  the  update-desktop-database	program,  please  report
     these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.

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