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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:

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS
output C shell code to set LS_COLORS
output defaults
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'.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR

Written by H. Peter Anvin.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for dircolors is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dircolors programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'dircolors invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

November 2020 GNU coreutils 8.22