dircolors
(1)color setup for ls
Options
6-b--sh--bourne-shelloutput Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS
-c--csh--c-shelloutput C shell code to set LS_COLORS
-p--print-databaseoutput defaults
--print-ls-colorsoutput fully escaped colors for display
--helpdisplay this help and exit
--versionoutput version information and exit
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
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Report any translation bugs to
https://translationproject.org/team/
SEE ALSO
Full documentation
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'
Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 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.