DIRCOLORS(1) User Commands DIRCOLORS(1) NAME dircolors - color setup for ls 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 GNU coreutils online help: Report any translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation' GNU coreutils 9.5 March 2024 DIRCOLORS(1)