dircolors - Man Page

color setup for ls

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

Description

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

Determine format of output

-b,  --sh,  --bourne-shell

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

-c,  --csh,  --c-shell

output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

-p,  --print-database

output defaults

--print-ls-colors

output fully escaped colors for display

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

If FILE is specified, read it to determine which colors to use for which file types and extensions.  Otherwise, a precompiled database is used. For details on the format of these files, run 'dircolors --print-database'.

Author

Written by H. Peter Anvin.

Reporting Bugs

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See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'

Referenced By

clifm(1), dir(1), dir_colors(5), fd(1), lftp(1), ls(1), tcsh(1), tree(1), vdir(1), vifm-convert-dircolors(1).

September 2024 GNU coreutils 9.5