dircolors (1) Linux Manual Page
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/>
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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.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/dircolors>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) dircolors invocation’