dircolors(1)

GNU coreutils 8.32

March 2020

coreutils

The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system

coreutils-doc

Documentation for the GNU Core Utilities

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

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.

REFERENCED BY

dir_colors(5), ls(1), tree(1), vifm-convert-dircolors(1), fd(1), fdfind(1)