DIRCOLORS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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
--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

Report dircolors bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.