Ubuntu Manpage: exa_colors — customising the file and UI colours of exa

NAME

       exa_colors — customising the file and UI colours of exa

SYNOPSIS

       The  EXA_COLORS environment variable can be used to customise the colours that exa uses to highlight file
       names, file metadata, and parts of the UI.

       You can use the dircolors program to generate a script that sets the variable from an input file,  or  if
       you don’t mind editing long strings of text, you can just type it out directly.  These variables have the
       following structure:

       • A list of key-value pairs separated by `=', such as `*.txt=32'.

       • Multiple ANSI formatting codes are separated by `;', such as `*.txt=32;1;4'.

       • Finally, multiple pairs are separated by `:', such as `*.txt=32:*.mp3=1;35'.

       The  key half of the pair can either be a two-letter code or a file glob, and anything that’s not a valid
       code will be treated as a glob, including keys that happen to be two letters long.

EXAMPLES

       EXA_COLORS="uu=0:gu=0"
              Disable the “current user” highlighting

       EXA_COLORS="da=32"
              Turn the date column green

       EXA_COLORS="Vagrantfile=1;4;33"
              Highlight Vagrantfiles

       EXA_COLORS="*.zip=38;5;125"
              Override the existing zip colour

       EXA_COLORS="*.md=38;5;121:*.log=38;5;248"
              Markdown files a shade of green, log files a shade of grey

LIST OF CODES

       LS_COLORS can use these ten codes:

       di     directories

       ex     executable files

       fi     regular files

       pi     named pipes

       so     sockets

       bd     block devices

       cd     character devices

       ln     symlinks

       or     symlinks with no target

       EXA_COLORS can use many more:

       ur     the user-read permission bit

       uw     the user-write permission bit

       ux     the user-execute permission bit for regular files

       ue     the user-execute for other file kinds

       gr     the group-read permission bit

       gw     the group-write permission bit

       gx     the group-execute permission bit

       tr     the others-read permission bit

       tw     the others-write permission bit

       tx     the others-execute permission bit

       su     setuid, setgid, and sticky permission bits for files

       sf     setuid, setgid, and sticky for other file kinds

       xa     the extended attribute indicator

       sn     the numbers of a file’s size (sets nb, nk, nm, ng and nh)

       nb     the numbers of a file’s size if it is lower than 1 KB/Kib

       nk     the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 KB/KiB and 1 MB/MiB

       nm     the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 MB/MiB and 1 GB/GiB

       ng     the numbers of a file’s size if it is between 1 GB/GiB and 1 TB/TiB

       nt     the numbers of a file’s size if it is 1 TB/TiB or higher

       sb     the units of a file’s size (sets ub, uk, um, ug and uh)

       ub     the units of a file’s size if it is lower than 1 KB/Kib

       uk     the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 KB/KiB and 1 MB/MiB

       um     the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 MB/MiB and 1 GB/GiB

       ug     the units of a file’s size if it is between 1 GB/GiB and 1 TB/TiB

       ut     the units of a file’s size if it is 1 TB/TiB or higher

       df     a device’s major ID

       ds     a device’s minor ID

       uu     a user that’s you

       un     a user that’s someone else

       gu     a group that you belong to

       gn     a group you aren’t a member of

       lc     a number of hard links

       lm     a number of hard links for a regular file with at least two

       ga     a new flag in Git

       gm     a modified flag in Git

       gd     a deleted flag in Git

       gv     a renamed flag in Git

       gt     a modified metadata flag in Git

       xx     “punctuation”, including many background UI elements

       da     a file’s date

       in     a file’s inode number

       bl     a file’s number of blocks

       hd     the header row of a table

       lp     the path of a symlink

       cc     an escaped character in a filename

       bO     the overlay style for broken symlink paths

       Values in EXA_COLORS override those given in LS_COLORS, so you don’t need to re-write an existing LS_COL‐
       ORS variable with proprietary extensions.

LIST OF STYLES

       Unlike some versions of ls, the given ANSI values must be valid colour codes: exa won’t  just  print  out
       whichever characters are given.

       The codes accepted by exa are:

       1      for bold

       4      for underline

       31     for red text

       32     for green text

       33     for yellow text

       34     for blue text

       35     for purple text

       36     for cyan text

       37     for white text

       38;5;nnn
              for a colour from 0 to 255 (replace the nnn part)

       Many terminals will treat bolded text as a different colour, or at least provide the option to.

       exa  provides its own built-in set of file extension mappings that cover a large range of common file ex‐
       tensions, including documents, archives, media, and temporary files.  Any  mappings  in  the  environment
       variables will override this default set: running exa with LS_COLORS="*.zip=32" will turn zip files green
       but leave the colours of other compressed files alone.

       You  can  also disable this built-in set entirely by including a reset entry at the beginning of EXA_COL‐
       ORS.  So setting EXA_COLORS="reset:*.txt=31" will highlight only text files;  setting  EXA_COLORS="reset"
       will highlight nothing.

AUTHOR

       exa is maintained by Benjamin `ogham' Sago and many other contributors.

       Website: https://the.exa.website/
       Source code: https://github.com/ogham/exa
       Contributors: https://github.com/ogham/exa/graphs/contributors

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