DIRCOLORS(1) User Commands DIRCOLORS(1)

dircolors - color setup for ls

dircolors [OPTION]... [FILE]

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS
output C shell code to set LS_COLORS
output defaults
output fully escaped colors for display
display this help and exit
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'.

Written by H. Peter Anvin.

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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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

January 2024 GNU coreutils 9.4