Manpages - 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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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