DIRCOLORS(1)

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 'dircolors --print-database'.

AUTHOR
Written by H. Peter Anvin.

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org

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

Packaged by Gentoo (9.10 (p0))
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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.