NAME¶

dircolors - Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

SYNOPSIS¶

dircolors [-b|--sh] [-c|--csh] [-p|--print-database] [--print-ls-colors] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION¶

Output commands to set the LS_COLORS environment variable.

OPTIONS¶

-b, --sh

output Bourne shell code to set LS_COLORS

-c, --csh

output C shell code to set LS_COLORS

-p, --print-database

print the byte counts

--print-ls-colors

output fully escaped colors for display

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

EXTRA¶

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'

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Output commands to set `$LS_COLOR` using default colors:

dircolors

Display each filetype with the color they would appear in `ls`:

dircolors --print-ls-colors

Output commands to set `$LS_COLOR` using colors from a file:

dircolors path/to/file

Output commands for Bourne shell:

dircolors [-b|--bourne-shell]

Output commands for C shell:

dircolors [-c|--c-shell]

View the default colors for file types and extensions:

dircolors [-p|--print-database]

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.