DIRCOLORS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2012
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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/>
Report dircolors translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 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 aqdircolors invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Determine format of output:
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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