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DIRCOLORS

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

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 โ€™dircolors --print-database โ€™.

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/>

SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation'

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