dircolors
color setup for ls
- Provided by: gnu-coreutils (Version: 9.10-1ubuntu2)
- Source: coreutils
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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 Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2)
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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.