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## Read

`Read` `filename` [quiet]

Causes fvwm to read commands from the file named `filename`. If the keyword Quiet follows the command no message is produced if the file is not found. If the file name does not begin with a slash ('/'), fvwm looks in the user's data directory, then the system data directory. The user's data directory is by default ``$HOME`/.fvwm`. It can be overridden by exporting `FVWM_USERDIR` set to any other directory. The Read command returns 1 if the given file could be read or -1 if not (see the section Conditional Commands for the meaning of return codes).

fvwm 2.6.8